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HTML is a heavily structured [[markup language]]. There are certain rules on how HTML must be written as defined by the [[W3C]] standards. Following these rules allows for sites that are accessible to handicapped people, and also to [[wireless]] devices like [[mobile phone]]s or [[PDA]]s.

WYSIWYG editors usually fail to adhere to these rules. This has been the main point of criticism since the first introduction of this editors. Then again, Texttext Editorseditors do not provide complete validation for all of these rules either, so valid code still relies on knowledge and accuracy of the coder.

While the "valid HTML" arguement still stands, the larger WYSIWYG editors have greatly improved their automated code writing in each version (even [[Microsoft Frontpage]] which in previous versions was notorious for it'sits destruction of valid HTML code).

=== HTML is not WYSIWYG ===