Am I correct in thinking that you cannot edit in the split screen viewer in The HTML Editor (such as with Visual Studio)?

I realize the visual site designer has this type of functionality, but it is for a business that does not care to rebuild their whole site.

Thanks!

Yes you can edit while in split screen mode in the HTML editor. HTML and CSS allow this.

You can edit the form html file that Web Form Builder generates in a split window editor such as Dreamweaver, Expression Web, etc., and you can edit the CSS file as well (default.css). This can be very useful (I needed to do that for my current project), but then the approach has its limitations. Specifically, the changes you make in your code editor are NOT reflected back to the "fb" file that Web Form Builder storms its form definitions in. In effect, the changes you make "break" the connection between the Web Form Builder as a design tool and code generator, and the ultimate output file that you'll put on your website.

In my case, I only have a couple of small changes that need to be made each time I republish the web form, so it's not a real hardship to do this after I modify the form in Web Form Builder. It's a trade-off -- if you keep that in mind, and figure out if that fits in your workflow, it may turn out to be workable for you.

Also -- I'm not sure what you're looking to accomplish, but you can have the current website, which you may maintain in one of those split window website tools, and insert just the tiny bit of code needed to load the CoffeeCup generated web form onto an existing page -- perhaps as a pop-up. Alternatively, if you need to embed the form in the page, you can lay out most of the page in your visual layout tools, create a placeholder div on the page, and pull the form HTML into the div at runtime -- that's what I'm doing.

Can you describe what you need to accomplish?

Thank you for your replies! What I want the users to be able to do is open a split screen in HTML Editor (no forms involved) and type directly into the preview half of the screen instead of in the HTML.

There would have to be some kind of input for the user to type in like in a form.

It does not have the function you're asking about. You're looking for a visual html editor like Dreamweaver. We all wish it had that feature, but alas it doesn't.

Ha, I will never be looking for Dreamweaver on purpose I can set them up with VS Express, I was just hoping to give them some of the nice CC features as well. Thanks for your reply!