Firefox, create a web page

mj519078 · Apr 22, 2012

Hi,
First time trying to make a web page. Here the content of my index.html file. When I open the file with firefox, the content of the file is displayed as a text file instead of a nice web page. Thank you for any tip. Michel

<html>
<head>
<title>My personal website</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>My personal website</h1>
<h2>Startpage</h2>
<h3>Welcome</h3>
</body>
</html>

louishen · Apr 22, 2012

Try giving it a doc type

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

vansmith · Apr 22, 2012

It's good form to have a DOCTYPE declared (more here) so take louishen's advice but know that it's not necessary for the page to work. Simple question: did you save the page with the htm or html extension? If not, Firefox is probably reading it as plain text and is thus just presenting it.

Firefox, create a web page

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