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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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