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Shadiya Marshall-Sessoms
Shadiya Marshall-Sessoms
1,517 Points

Im trying to indent in notepad, and its not working....

Im trying to indent in notepad, and its not working so my Webpage is not aligned how it looks as he is demonstrating...i pressed ctrl [ and it not doing anything on my notepad, im working on windows 7, please help someone...

3 Answers

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

2 things:

  • Indenting is only to make it easier to read for humans it doesn't affect how browsers render your HTML
  • Notepad isn't made for writing code, you want notepad++ for that
Shadiya Marshall-Sessoms
Shadiya Marshall-Sessoms
1,517 Points

oh notepad is different than notepad++? notepad must be too old lol, I thought I could use Notepad as a text editor to make webpages...

James Barnett
James Barnett
39,199 Points

> notepad must be too old lol

Nope, Notepad is a simple text editor that's meant to do one thing, edit simple text files nothing else.

> I thought I could use Notepad as a text editor to make webpages

You can, but it will be much less painful if you use a programming text editor that has lots of features to help you program.

Shadiya Marshall-Sessoms
Shadiya Marshall-Sessoms
1,517 Points

Im writing what the instructor in the video is writing but my text is not aligned , lie its supposed to be at the bottom of the page but its at the bottom...