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What does wysiwyg mean?

What does wysiwyg mean?
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Gianluca G.
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Webmaster, Full-stack developer
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What You See Is What You Get, it means that what you are typing in the editor, in the backend panel, is what you will see in the frontend side.
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Patrick H.
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WYSIWYG is an acronym, and it means "What You See Is What You Get". Basically, whatever goes in that box is what is what you get when you display that content somewhere else
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Chris G.
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Owner, Netstellar Software
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The person who is seriously thinking about adopting TinyMCE in their dev environment and yet asks "what does wysiwyg mean" cannot be helped
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