Visual Editor version comparison
View a comparison of the features available for the original version of the Visual Editor and the new version of the Visual Editor.
Products
- Optimizely Web Experimentation
- Optimizely Edge Delivery
- Optimizely Personalization
The Visual Editor is a WYSIWYG editor that loads your website and lets you adjust the visitor experience for your experiment however you like. After creating an experiment in Web Experimentation, Performance Edge, Optimizely Edge Delivery, or creating a Web Personalization campaign, you can open any variations you have made and immediately edit page elements.
If you want to experiment with more elaborate changes to your site, Web Experimentation and Performance Edge also support adding your custom HTML and JavaScript with custom code options.
Feature comparison
The following table compares the features available for the original version of the Visual Editor and the new version of the Visual Editor.
| Original version | New version | |
|---|---|---|
| How the Visual Editor loads | iFrame | Overlay |
| Editing: Insert HTML | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Edit HTML | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Insert image | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Change style elements | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Rearrange page elements | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Variation code editor | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Add redirects | Yes | Yes |
| Editing: Duplicate elements | No | Yes (coming soon) |
| AI variation development agent | No | Yes |
| Editing: Add custom shared code (experiment code) | Yes | Yes |
| Opal website analyzer | No | Yes |
| Support for single-page application (SPA) sites | Yes (requires manual work to support) | Yes (automated, coming soon) |
| Templates | Yes | Yes |
| Drag and drop for moving and reordering page elements | No | Yes |
| Advanced configuration for dynamic selectors | No (prefix + full path) | Yes |
| Conditional activation in the user interface (UI) | No (requires JavaScript code) | Yes |
| Upgraded visual tags and object mapping | No | Yes (coming soon) |
| Advanced, more user-friendly debugging | No | Yes |
| Set up click events within experiments | Yes | Yes (coming soon) |
Updated about 2 months ago