Text edit for html, doesn't work. Help please.

[Darth Maynard]

Hello all,

I hope I'm posting in the correct forum. The web developers forum didn't seem like the right place for my problem, but I guess we'll see.

I recently upgraded from a G5 dual 2.0 (OS 10.4.11) to a new mac mini (OS 10.6.2). I have a website that I maintain after getting a pro to set it up for me many years ago. Basically, I would change the text and images as needed using Simpletext. Yes, doing everything in Classic. Now, I recently made some changes using Textedit, saving as an html. I uploaded using Fetch (5.5) and the page displays only the html and not a web page.

I tried doing the same thing in MS Word with the same result.

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your help,
Tim

www.timmaynard.com

 

[miles01110]

You're probably saving it as Rich Text instead of Plain Text. You need to save it as Plain Text.

 

[Koronis]

Open the textedit preferences, in the open and save tab, you need to check the box that says
ignore rich text commands in html files

 

[Darth Maynard]

Plain text isn't listed as an option. Web page is. I tried once before to use OS X.x for my web updates using TextEdit and couldn't get it to work. I was pleased to see that I could save it as a web page (.html). I tried saving it using file format: "web page" and got this result.

 

[emiljan]

Here is a link on how you can setup textedit for html.

http://support.apple.com/kb/TA20406

 

[Darth Maynard]

Thanks Koronis,

That did the trick!

 

[Koronis]

That drove me crazy for a while when I first started using text edit

 

[calderone]

If rich text were the default, you can change a document to plain text by choosing Format --> Make Plain Text or Command + Shift + T.