![]() ![]() Yes, it’s a bit of a pain, but, as I said, you only have to do this once, when you first save the file, and from then on, it’ll work transparently. Click on “OK”, though, and now you get this:Ĭlick on “Use. In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > Open, then select the document. In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > New, then choose Format > Make Plain Text. Choose File –> Save As… and type in a filename that includes a “.html” filename extension: Work with HTML documents in TextEdit on Mac Create an HTML file. Now, almost done (and you only have to go through this once: once the file is properly named, TextEdit will remember for future edit sessions). ![]() ![]() To fix that, go to Format –> Make Plain Text and, voila! It’ll look like this: This is not good because the program wants to work with Rich Text Format, not plain text (the ruler is the giveaway). In TextEdit, you’ll type in some HTML and have a window that looks like this: Yes, we’re now deep into the 21st Century, but computer operating systems still basically work like early DOS machines: If you have the wrong filename extension, either your OS itself won’t understand it or your Web browser will be convinced that even though it looks like HTML inside it’s really just plain text to show as-is. Just as with NotePpad on the PC, there’s a bit of a trick to getting TextEdit to save HTML files properly, and it’s all to do with the filename extension.
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