How do you edit .htm files?

[gray929]

Anyone know? It's probably something really easy that is just slipping by my brain atm. I know I can use text editor for .html but what baout .htm?

Thanks

[Aaron]

It's the same. .htm is just a shorter extension of .html because back in the day, you could only use 3 character extensions.

[gray929]

Thanks.

But when I open the .htm file in text editor, it shows up like this:

wimg.co.uk/DCogW2.png

But when i open a .html file it shows up with the actual coding. Is there something I'm doing wrong or a step I am missing?

[Josh]

Change it to html. There's no difference between htm and html except for an l. Then when you are done, save it as an html again and go into Finder and change the extension to htm. Done.

[Bobby Hensley]

Apr 1, 2009 3:10:35 GMT @gray929 said:

Thanks.

But when I open the .htm file in text editor, it shows up like this:

wimg.co.uk/DCogW2.png

But when i open a .html file it shows up with the actual coding. Is there something I'm doing wrong or a step I am missing?

I don't use Macs personally, but I know you can specify a particular program to open a file with. So just choose to open that particular file with your usual text editor.

If it's possible to do that on Linux and Windows then it is on Mac.

[Josh]

Apr 1, 2009 3:42:49 GMT Bobby Hensley said:

Apr 1, 2009 3:10:35 GMT @gray929 said:

Thanks.

But when I open the .htm file in text editor, it shows up like this:

wimg.co.uk/DCogW2.png

But when i open a .html file it shows up with the actual coding. Is there something I'm doing wrong or a step I am missing?

I don't use Macs personally, but I know you can specify a particular program to open a file with. So just choose to open that particular file with your usual text editor.

If it's possible to do that on Linux and Windows then it is on Mac.

That is the usual text editor. In fact, it's called "TextEdit"

[comicIDIOT]

Apr 1, 2009 3:10:35 GMT @gray929 said:

Thanks.

But when I open the .htm file in text editor, it shows up like this:

wimg.co.uk/DCogW2.png

But when i open a .html file it shows up with the actual coding. Is there something I'm doing wrong or a step I am missing?

Text editor isn't Windows' Notpad. It's the equivalent of Wordpad. TextEdit is a RTF - Rich Text Format - editor.

Try this. Go to File, Open. Before you open your file select "Ignore rich text commands" at the bottom of the dialog. It'll open just fine. Dragging and dropping or double clicking will bypass that check box thus telling TextEdit to go ahead and read the HTML within the file.

[Bobby Hensley]

Apr 1, 2009 3:52:45 GMT Josh said:

Apr 1, 2009 3:42:49 GMT Bobby Hensley said:

I don't use Macs personally, but I know you can specify a particular program to open a file with. So just choose to open that particular file with your usual text editor.

If it's possible to do that on Linux and Windows then it is on Mac.

That is the usual text editor. In fact, it's called "TextEdit"

That's no more of a text editor than WordPad or MS Word is. Let me be explicit from here on out, seeing as it would appear that's required.

"Choose your standard plain text editor"

[comicIDIOT]

There is no "Standard Plain Text Editor" on a Mac; It can display plain text using the method in my post above.

[gray929]

Apr 1, 2009 4:58:38 GMT comicIDIOT said:

Apr 1, 2009 3:10:35 GMT @gray929 said:

Thanks.

But when I open the .htm file in text editor, it shows up like this:

wimg.co.uk/DCogW2.png

But when i open a .html file it shows up with the actual coding. Is there something I'm doing wrong or a step I am missing?

Text editor isn't Windows' Notpad. It's the equivalent of Wordpad. TextEdit is a RTF - Rich Text Format - editor.

Try this. Go to File, Open. Before you open your file select "Ignore rich text commands" at the bottom of the dialog. It'll open just fine. Dragging and dropping or double clicking will bypass that check box thus telling TextEdit to go ahead and read the HTML within the file.

That worked perfect. ty