Opening an HTML file as an editable text file

Recent [Jan 07] switcher, I want to open an HTML file as a text file, similiar to opening an html file with notepad under WinXP. TextEdit is evaluating the html. I just want text.

I'm thinking this should be pretty simple....

TIA

try right clicking (ctrl clicking) on the file and go to "Open with..." and select a different app like...i dont really know w/e app u want

smultron is an excellent text editor (see http://smultron.sourceforge.net). I use it to edit the HTML for my web site all the time.

If you just need the text, I would open the HTML file in a browser, copy and paste into a word document.

Just open the HTML page in your browser then click "View Source" - under the edit menu in most browsers.

Then "Save As" > text.

Command-U in firefox