How can I look at index.html in Vista?

[RJMiller]

Microsoft help doesn't seem to provide much. I've checked my own literature and can't find a clue. I'm certainly missing something simple. I can look at it with all the html coding but not the way it would appear as a page.

[falkencreative]

You may want to double check that the file doesn't end in .txt. Most likely, the file is named "index.html.txt"

[Andrea]

I think RJ wants to see the source code. If I'm right, Vista has nothing to do with it. It's the Browser that matters. Most of them offer that option in the drop-down you get after right-clicking the webpage.

[LSW]

Or open it in a text editor like notepad.

[RJMiller]

I thank you for your quick reply to my rather cryptic message. It appears that I have solved the problem myself. Rather like the proverbial chimp randomly pounding on a keyboard that eventually produces a literary work of art (somewhat unlikely) I stumbled onto a solution. I know that I can look at the source code in notepad (which produced it), I was looking for what it would look like when downloaded from the web. In any case thank you.

[Wickham]

Right click and Open with Notepad to edit a html file, just double click it to open in your default browser to see what it will look like online, assuming the file is filename.html and not filename.html.txt as Ben said.

[jlhaslip]

Some/many Browsers use Control-U to display the source code of a page being viewed in the Browser.

[LSW]

It was not criptic... note pad tends to add a .txt to whatever name you give it. that question appears here often. So that is what thelma thought of first as it is so common.