HTML and CSS Reference
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Fixing TextEdit on your Mac
If TextEdit on your Mac has its default settings, you may have had problems saving plain HTML fi les.
That's because the default fi le type that TextEdit saves fi les as is Rich Text Format (
.rtf
) and not plain
text (
.txt
). With
.rtf
, your text is saved with other code that you don't want in your Web pages.
Here's what you need to do to fi x it for writing Web pages:
1.
Open TextEdit.
2.
In the TextEdit menu at the top of the screen, choose Preferences.
The Preferences dialog box appears.
3.
Select the Plain Text radio button (see the fi gure).
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Changing TextEdit from Rich Text to Plain Text.
Now when you create an HTML5 page in TextEdit, when you save the fi le, it defaults to
.txt
and
you can just change that to
.html
using Save As.
