Html files don't work on Mac?

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  1. Thumbz, Aug 25, 2011

    Thumbz macrumors newbie

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    I made a simple .html file and ran it and instead of running the simple
    <html>
    <head><title> Hello world</title></head>
    <body> Hello again </body>
    </html>

    (not actual code)

    it just prints it. Does anyone know why it does this and how to fix it? I'm taking an html class and I can't do anything without learning how to fix this problem. I double checked everything for the .html extension, here's a screenshot. (http://i.imgur.com/jcfX9.png)

    Thanks for any and all help!
     
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  2. MrCheeto, Aug 25, 2011

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    Give this a try
     
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  3. blevins321, Aug 25, 2011

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    Does taking out the doctype line make it display correctly?
     
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  4. Hansr, Aug 26, 2011

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    Depending on editor it might save text files with a hidden .txt extension. Do cmd+I on the file and change file.html.txt to file.html
     
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  5. Makosuke, Aug 26, 2011

    Makosuke macrumors 603

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    This sounds most likely to me. Myself and countless other people who develop websites on OSX can attest that it can and does work fine.

    I'd recommend grabbing yourself a copy of TextWrangler (it's free from Barebones direct or the Mac App store)--very nice text editor, decent support for HTML source coloring, and it's very explicit about what character encoding it's using and how it saves files.
     
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  6. jbushne1, Aug 27, 2011

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    have to tried converting it to plain text?
     
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  7. hayesk, Aug 27, 2011

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    Does it do this if you open it in Safari or Firefox - if so, it's probably the hidden extension thing mentioned above. If not, it's probably a Chrome setting.
     
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