In-site editing

In-site editing is a process whereby an editor can make changes in a web content management system directly on the website . The editor sees the website exactly as it appears to the viewer without editing functions. This is similar to a WYSIWYG editor, but no additional software such as B. Microsoft FrontPage to be installed.

Often it is even possible to adopt texts and documents from external sources (e.g. Microsoft Word ) without losing the formatting - this is a significant step forward compared to off-site editing. Wikis like Wikipedia use off-site editing, where an article is edited in a text field.

In-site editing is supported by Internet Explorer 5.5 or higher and Mozilla with the mozile extension. A DIV element of the HTML markup language is made editable via a so-called style attribute.