Won't let me save as '.html'

Tristan,

First you'll need to click "Format" and choose "Make Plain Text". HTML files (and CSS and PHP and any other code you write here) will need to be in plain text to avoid extra markup. Once you've done that, when you go to Save, you should see a drop down box that says "Plain Text Encoding: Unicode (UTF-8)". Now you should be able to save as an .html file.

Hm. You probably have the checkbox checked "If no extension is provided use ".txt"?

if so this will bring up a prompt asking you to use .html or use .txt? IF so, if you click use .html it should be fine.

But honestly ...

Drop Textedit and get Sublime Text. All will be well after that. You need the syntax highlighting and indentation among other things. Very powerful editor.

EDIT: NVM. Shawn has it.

I don't have a mac, but you should be able to simply rename a file to have a .html extension. A quick google on sublime text looks like it would suit your purposes.

Thanks Shawn, it worked!