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How to Edit HTML

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In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we're going to learn how to edit HTML and learn about text editors.

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    ?[treehouse presents]?

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    [Quick Tips] [How to Edit HTML with Nick Pettit]

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    Hi, I'm Nick.

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    In this Treehouse Quick Tip, we're going to learn how to edit HTML.

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    Before I tell you what we should do,

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    let's go ahead and go over what we shouldn't do.

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    Make sure that you don't edit your HTML

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    in a word processing application like

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    Microsoft Word, Apple Pages, or Google Docs.

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    These programs add special formatting that's invisible to you and me,

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    but will not play nice with a web browser.

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    These days, most web designers and developers use what's called a text editor.

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    This is a type of program that allows you to edit documents in plain text

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    just as they are.

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    Let's look at a few popular ones.

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    If you're using a PC and you're on Windows,

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    you can actually get started with Notepad

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    which is included with your operating system.

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    If you're on a Mac, you can use TextEdit.

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    If you do use TextEdit, be sure that you go up to the format menu

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    and then you click on make plain text before you actually go to save your document.

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    This will ensure that there's no rich formatting included with your plain text.

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    However, a really great text editor for beginners and advanced users alike

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    is Sublime Text 2.

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    It's available for Windows, Mac, and Linux.

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    You can go to sublimetext.com/2 [http://www.sublimetext.com/2]

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    and then download the installer that's appropriate for your operating system.

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    Once you've installed Sublime Text 2, it will look something like this.

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    If you try Sublime and you like it, then you can go ahead and pay for a license.

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    By default, most text editors will want to save a file as a text file or .txt file.

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    However, when you save your files with the intention of creating a HTML webpage,

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    you'll want to save them with .html file extension.

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    go to teamtreehouse.com and start learning for free. [http://www.TeamTreehouse.com]

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