You asked the question in the typography category, about the computer phenomenon of 'what you see is what you get'.
Before WYSIWYG, printed results on a page never looked like the video screen text. This made printing a rather unsettling exercise, since you were forced to adjust the text by trial and error. All typesetting for printing in magazines, newspapers and so forth was done by workers using machines called Linotypes. These machines functioned like typewriters, but set metal plates with type, which were then photographed, turned into photographic negatives, and then printed on industrial, commercial printers.
With the announcement of PostScript and the first typesetting product based on it, PageMaker from Aldus Corporation in the mid 1980s, a page designer could control the type style, leading, margins and more just by dragging 'edges' of type on an image visible on a computer monitor.
Then, using a PostScript printer, the page designer could produce photographic negatives from imagesetters, a type of computer printer. These negatives were then sent to the industrial printers for paper print production.
WYSIWYG made desktop publishing possible, and over time eliminated the need for both Linotype machines and the enormous photographic setups required to produce printing negatives.
The purpose is to allow you to create a web page/web site without the need to learn HTML language and coding.
Allows you to easily make changes to web page.
If you can work a word processor program then you can work a WYSIWYG editor and create web pages.
What You See Is What You Get
WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get." Word is a WYSIWYG word processing program because your printed document will look the same as it does on the screen. With older word processors, this was not always the case.
Denoting the representation of text on screen in a form exactly corresponding to its appearance on a printout.
WYSIWYG (What you see is what you get) was popularized on the Flip Wilson TV program when erratic character Geraldine wanted to make a "flip" answer that you had to accept her for the way that she was. Later with the introduction of the desktop computer a program called Bravo from Xerox Parc for the Alto introduced the concept that the appearance of the document on the screen represented the way that it would look when it was printed.
I assume you mean HTML, which is written as: <a href="http://www.example.com">Click Here</a> Other text or WYSIWYG programs usually have links as menu bar options.
wysiwyg = What You See Is What You Get
A computer acronym "WYSIWYG" is short for "What You See Is What You Get".
WYSIWYG Film Festival was created in 1999.
WYSIWYG is a common acronym for "What you see is what you get". GUI stands for "Graphical User Interface"
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WYSIWYG stands for "what you see is what you get." Word is a WYSIWYG word processing program because your printed document will look the same as it does on the screen. With older word processors, this was not always the case.
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What you see is what you get.