TextEdit keeps saving .html file as .txt

Edit your document in rich text. When you first save it there will be pull-down menu to choose html. Saves after that behave properly and don't eat the html extension. For some reason TextEdit persists in changing html documents done in plain text to a txt extension.

That doesn't work. Using vi instead.

That's odd. I just double checked. This time I created the document in plain text and saved it with an html extension. When I right-clicked to open in TextEdit it opened in RTF format and showed as locked. I clicked the triangle and chose to unlock. It saved as html. Rather a pain but things behave well if I save from RTF in TextEdit to begin with.

You might want to try Bare Bones TextWrangler for text editing. It's an old reliable Mac standby that has a ton of customizable features.

I'd like to use TextEdit. But, for me, it is totally broken right now. I don't know if everyone is having the same problems, but this is what it is doing to me.

• .TXT extension change - All plaintext document extensions are being changed to .txt on save (either explicit or autosave). I like to do my xml, html, etc. in TextEdit since it loads fast and used to be very reliable. This alone is bad enough, but coupled with the next problem, I have abandoned TextEdit as completely broken for my use case.
• Unable to edit HTML - All HTML files are viewed as HTML in TextEdit now. Once a file has been ... I don't know... converted by TextEdit, I can no longer look at it in TextEdit as source. It only shows as HTML. This is very frustrating.

Hopefully, somebody is looking at this, because for me, TextEdit is completely broken in 10.7.1. I'm having to resort to using vi, as I stated earlier.

I also have this problem. I hope it gets fixed soon, as I too have stopped using TextEdit because of it.

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Anybody know if there is any progress on this? I'm having the same problem. The box is unchecked in preferences and I deleted the com.apple.TextEdit.plist.

I have a bug open for this. Apple replied saying that it's a known issue. Hopefully, it will be I. 10.7.2.

Thanks for the update.

Having the same problem here. What a frustrating experience, and what a simple bug that should have been caught. I think we know where the junior developers at Apple are working. Steve would not be pleased.

Huh? Don't you know that iOS mobiles and clouds are the future? No one's computing any longer; staying connected, texting, listening to tunes, watching flicks, reading books, and networking is the cool, with it, and modern paradigm. That also explains the dull, gray, B&W world they live in.😉

I'm having the same bug, and I'm using Lion.

Just forget textedit and use TextWrangler. It's free on the app store, it saves stuff at html (and keeps it that way when you save again), and it's simple.

I sincerely hope this helps someone because textedit was really frustrating me, even after I changed all the settings to what was supposed to work.

Has the 10.7.2 update fixed this issue?

Yes, it appears as though you can use Text Edit again for html/xml.

I'm having the same issues, even with the 10.7.3. I hope Apple can fix this. It's really aggrivating. I have just downloaded TextWrangler and so far it's been good.

If I change the settings in preferences I expect that everytime I open TextEdit, I will see proper code format and not have issues saving and viewing. It should stay that way until I decide to changeit back to text format. Yeesh!