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Building a Simple Browser Code Editor with JavaScript

Create, Edit, and Run JavaScript Code in Your Browser with Ease

Max N
3 min readJun 23, 2023

Introduction

In this tutorial, we’ll explore how to build a basic JavaScript code editor that allows you to write, edit, and run JavaScript code directly in your browser.

By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a functional code editor where you can experiment with JavaScript code snippets. Here is a preview:

Let’s get started!

HTML Structure

To create our code editor, we’ll start with a basic HTML structure.

 <body>
<div class="container">
<textarea id="codeEditor"></textarea>
<button id="runButton">Run Code</button>
<div id="output"></div>
</div>
<script src="script.js"></script>
</body>

CSS Styling

To make our code editor visually appealing, we’ll apply some CSS styles.

body {
font-family: Arial…

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Max N
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