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HTML HTML Introduction Markup

Michael Brady
Michael Brady
269 Points
Posted by Michael Brady
Michael Brady
269 Points

Html file in Textedit appears to be text only?

Do we have to enable html tagging?

File extension is .html but my tags are no changing color and appear to have the properties of plain text.

2 Answers

Gildo Santana
Gildo Santana
3,184 Points
Gildo Santana
Gildo Santana
3,184 Points

HTML is plain text. What you want is a feature called syntax highlighting. It doesn't add any formatting to the text, it just displays it in a manner good for the human brain. I don't use a Mac, but, as Nathan said, I believe TextEdit is a simple text editor pretty much like Notepad on Windows, which doesn't have syntax highlighting. A text editor is a very personal choice, I personally like Sublime Text. Aptana Studio is an IDE-like editor great for web development. Perhaps you should try Komodo Edit also.

Nathan Newell
Nathan Newell
7,634 Points
Nathan Newell
Nathan Newell
7,634 Points

try something like Notepad++ as it is a source code editor. I think Textedit is just a text editor, I may be wrong.