kungfutastic Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 my very first paragraph this is my first attempt at a web page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 How did you save this? You say your TEXT document does not work - html is not a text doc, it's html - make sure it's saved as whatever.html. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfutastic Posted November 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 THanks for that. I write the doc in text edit (on mac) and also tried word. I then saved as a html doc (looks different with the web browser logo) Im using firefox..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 Sorry, but I don't know anything about macs - there are others here who work on them. Hopefully, someone will come along shortly and help you out with this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfutastic Posted November 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 OK. I am thinking though that it shouldn't make any difference whether mac or pc really. Its really frustrating i just want to get started...ahhhhhhhhhhh Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 It shouldn't make a difference, but there could be a mac-specific issue I have no idea of. SOMETHING clearly isn't working right :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrea Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 I just changed your thread title - hopefully this will get you help faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kungfutastic Posted November 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 Thank youX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 TextEdit defaults to a "rich text" mode, which may be giving you problems. To fix it: -- open up TextEdit -- go the the Preferences -- Make sure you are using the "plain text" option I believe that should take care of your issue. You may need to copy/paste your old files into new, plain text files to get it to work. And make sure you are saving your files as .html, of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Michael foden Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 I am having the same problem and I followed your advice now it's not letting me save as an html ??? Is there any way around this ?? Plez help been pullin my hair out for an houre now THANX Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
falkencreative Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 now it's not letting me save as an html ??? Can you be more specific? Are you getting an error message? From the "Save as" dialog, just type in your file name, and remove the ".txt" and replace it with ".html" If you get a popup asking if you are sure you want to change the file extension, make sure you select "use .html". Also, if you were previously using the rich text format, you can't simply open those files up within TextEdit and save them and expect everything to be fine. You'll need to open up a new, plain text file, copy and paste your code from the old file to the new (this removes all the rich text formatting) and then save the new file as .html. ...I may as well mention, there are a lot of better free alternatives for writing HTML code on the Mac... TextWrangler and Smultron are both good alternatives that will give you code highlighting and other useful functions. My personal favorite is Coda, though that is a paid app. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
virtual Posted November 5, 2009 Report Share Posted November 5, 2009 You might need to also check the following boxes in the "Open and Save" - as Ben told you -- open up TextEdit -- go the the Preferences -- go to Open and Save Check ignore rich text commands in HTML files Check ignore rich text commands in RTF files Uncheck add ".txt" extension to plain text files Then you can fill in your HTML options from the drop down menus Remember these changes only apply to new files, as Ben explained, previous files saved in Rich text format will need to be copied and pasted into a new file and then saved. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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