The Text Editor is used to edit the content of the page or post of your WordPress website. Besides helping in editing text, it also has options for changing fonts to bold, italic and alignment options. It also has the option to add links and anchor text.

The editor also offers some extra features to add HTML directly. You can also add images, tables, graphs to the content of your WordPress website.

The Editor is also present in the WordPress admin Dashboard where you can edit your theme files. You can write HTML, PHP and CSS code in this admin text editor. It also has some basic options in the bar on the top that quickly insert the most commonly used HTML elements in the content. Most advanced users prefer using the editor over the visual editor, as it inhibits WordPress from adding its style.

The WordPress editor has a pretty basic structure. The WordPress text editor is a huge box with a horizontal toolbar along with a text area, where you can write and edit the text. On the right upper corner, you can see an option between text and visual. Here you can choose between the two editor options is the visual mode or the text (HTML) mode. The text area can be modified depending upon the type of mode you choose. Both the modes have different toolbars. Also, if you need more features in the WordPress text editor, then you can install different plugins for it. You can check different plugins for the editor on WordPress Plugin Directory.