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High quality HTML WYSIWYG editor that won't mess with my compliant XHTML?

If I build a website using hand-coded, compliant HTML/CSS/JS, and it gets passed off to a client who is going to modify it using a WYSIWYG HTML editor, is there a recommendation of software which will do the least amount of damage? I'm not talking about a TEXTAREA editor, but an actual program like Dreamweaver, etc. I'm looking for something that won't add its own stylesheets, move my <head> elements around, add its own proprietary tags, etc. Keep my stuff as intact as possible. Does such a thing exist?

Thanks!

Eirman

In your hand coding, can you create editable areas like you can in Dreamweaver?
Then let your client use dreamweaver on the editable regions.

Maybe you need a Content Management System.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_content_management_system

Brad Bansner

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I'm not really very familiar with Dreamweaver. If it is possible to specify editable areas, and have Dreamweaver respect those areas, that could definitely be a possible solution.

I don't think a CMS will work in this case.

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Brad Bansner

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That's sort of what I was afraid of, and what I was trying to avoid. I was hoping somebody, somewhere, had created a WYSIWYG HTML editor that works more like a TinyMCE.

Jason C. Levine

TinyMCE works like TinyMCE :)

But wysiwyg editors that are complete web page editors attempt to work the whole page.

Brad Bansner

ASKER

I guess this answers my question. What I'm looking for doesn't really exist.

Jason C. Levine

Not in the way you hope, no.

Dreamweaver or Dreamweaver + Contribute with a fair amount of effort to whip it into shape is the closest to what you want. But CMS's predominate for a reason these days...