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HTML HTML Text Paragraphs and Headlines

Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points
Posted by Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points

My webbrowser is not only showing the website but also all the html tags. How can I get rid of the html tags?

Cannot preview the website I'm creating properly because I see the oroginal code instead of the product (the website) ...

7 Answers

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Thomas,

What editor are you using? If it's a word processor and not a text editor then that might explain it.

Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points
Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points

I downloaded a new text editor (TextMate) .... now it works ...

Jason Anello
Jason Anello
Courses Plus Student 94,610 Points

Hi Thomas,

Glad you figured it out. Yes, textedit is a word processor and so you would want to switch to a text editor like you did. There's also Sublime Text.

Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore
6,680 Points
Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore
6,680 Points

Are all of your tags closed? Sometimes if a tag doesn't get closed, everything after it will get put on the page. Maybe you forgot to put a </p>. Also, how are you doing it? Is it with CodePen or on your computer? If you're using CodePen, you can drag the HTML page preview to be bigger.

Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points
Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points

Hi Anthony and Jason,

thank you for your answers ... I am using TextEdit ... below you find my html structure ... as you can see all the tags are closed ...

<!doctype html>

<html lang=“en”> <head> <meta charset=“utf-8”> <title> My Page </title> </head>

<body> 
    <h1>  This is a level 1 headline </h1>
    <h2>  This is a level 2 headline </h2>
    <h3>  This is a level 3 headline </h3>
    <p>
        bla bla
    </p>
    <p>
        bla bla
    </p>
    <p>
        bla bla
    </p>
</body>

</html>

Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points
Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points

ok ... now I have the exact opposite problem: I copied the code and pasted it into a new TextEdit file, which I saved (as html). When I opened the file in the browser I it was only showing the website without the html tags (which is good). But when I opened the file with TextEdit it was also only showing the website without the html tags (which is bad because I can't see my code anymore now) .... So what I see in the browser seems to be always the same as what I see in my text editor ... which shouldn't be the case! ... What's going on here?

Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore
6,680 Points
Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore
6,680 Points

Hi Thomas. I was sitting here puzzled over your problem and then I noticed you got it fixed. I'm glad. I got TextMate and TextEdit mixed up. I'm not sure, but from searching around I think you can set TextEdit to use only plain text. If you do that, it will work with HTML.

Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points
Thomas O
Thomas O
13,120 Points

Hi Anthony,

I also tried setting the format of TextEdit to Plain Text but still the browser showed all the html tags. ... I don't really care why because I'm now using TextMate anyway and it works. Thank you for your help with getting that problem fixed.