How Can I Edit HTML Files?

You can do view source and copy into a text editor such as BBEdit or use an authoring program such as GoLive or Dreamweaver.

 

go to a view or preferences in text edit see if u can toggle back to the code. I love bbedit its great you should check it out.

 

1) change the extension to .txt and open in Text Edit

2) Copy the source from Moz/Saf to Text Edit , make changes and resave

3) Use Unix Software like vi or emacs in the terminal to edit the file

TEG

 

If you want to do some serious HTML-editing or to make you personal site, I would recomment Macromedia Dreamweaver

 

Dreamweaver costs an arm and a leg. I recommend the poster try out Mozilla Composer first. It's not as powerful as Dreamweaver, but it should handle what he needs done, and it's totally free.

http://www.mozilla.org/products/mozilla1.x/

 

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SubEthaEdit ! Much cheaper than BBEdit (and free for non-commercial use), and has splendid syntax colouring, as well as an option for collaborative editing. Very handy for group projects. It even has full Unicode support, because it's Cocoa--which BBEdit (which used to be my editor of choice) does not.

Perhaps someday it'll have syntax checking, too.

Cheers!

[Edit: I just double-checked TextWrangler, and retract my statement about BBEdit's Unicode support--although that still seems like a minor issue.]

 

You could also try Macromedia Contribute. The latest version is about $130, but it has a great interface for people that want to create or edit web pages and don't know HTML. I recommend it to all my clients who want to manage their own sites and who don't want to pay for content management.

 

TextEdit > Preferences: check "Ignore rich text commands in HTML files".

 

Use the text editorTextWrangler, a freeware version of BBEdit, or Taco HTML Edit, freeware that lets you preview the HTML (or PHP!)...

 

I am assuming that you are using "text edit" as I had tis problem also when I started.

What i do is open text edit and under preferences, I click on "plain text" and under file --> open --> (make sure "ignore rich text commands is checked") and open the same file. Then you should be able to open the html code without having to buy expensive software which you dont really need. It only takes a week to learn html. If you wanna learn css...go to www.csszengarden.com and they have a premade css page thats downloadable and that there is what you need rather than html. Most people use html for structure today and css for making the page kewl.

Hope that helps