Quick Question about HTML editing

Christopher · Christopher #1 (**permalink**)

10-03-2007, 11:24 AM

I have a friend i'm helping edit his web site, and I want to open individual pages (friendpage.html), and alter the code. The issue is, when I open that file with either Text Edit, Word, or RapidWeaver, it opens the web page and displays it... when I want to look at the code.

Can you tell me how to do this?

Thanks for all the recent help I've gotten here at this site.

giulio · giulio #2 (**permalink**)

10-03-2007, 11:33 AM

Sounds like your editor(s) are stuck in DESIGN view. You need to tell them to use CODE view.

TextWrangler is a great free code editor. It will never render the web page.

I prefer Coda though.

Aptmunich · Aptmunich #3 (**permalink**)

10-03-2007, 11:43 AM

You need to open it in a program that will ignore the formatting.
I prefer SubEthaEdit, but smultron is a free alternative:

There are a bunch of others out there too...

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Christopher #1 (permalink)
Member Since: Jan 16, 2007 Posts: 223	10-03-2007, 11:24 AM I have a friend i'm helping edit his web site, and I want to open individual pages (friendpage.html), and alter the code. The issue is, when I open that file with either Text Edit, Word, or RapidWeaver, it opens the web page and displays it... when I want to look at the code. Can you tell me how to do this? Thanks for all the recent help I've gotten here at this site.
	QUOTE Thanks

giulio #2 (permalink)
Member Since: Mar 19, 2007 Location: NY USA Posts: 1,813 Mac Specs: iMac 5.1 \| iMac 7.1 \| iPod Touch \| iPod Nano	10-03-2007, 11:33 AM Sounds like your editor(s) are stuck in DESIGN view. You need to tell them to use CODE view. TextWrangler is a great free code editor. It will never render the web page. I prefer Coda though.
	QUOTE Thanks

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