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How does one get Text Edit files saved as HTML to display as a web page rather than showing the code as written? It appears that somehow some sort of code generator is being invoked and causing this to happen. I am not trying to do anything complex, just simple files like "Hello World".
iMac, OS X Mavericks (10.9.1)
Hi ..
Make sure you are following the instructions as noted here > Creating a Basic Web Page
You may need to turn off all Safari extensions.
From your Safari menu bar click Safari > Preferences then select the Extensions tab.
Switch to OFF.
Then see if it reads as HTML or Hello World.
I had actually tried that(shutting off the extensions) and it didn't work. I do have DWcc on the machine and the code works fine there. I cut the saved code out of Text Edit and displayed it in DW and it is full of all sorts of stuff that I didn't put there, which makes me think code generator in the background. I think there was a reference to the Cocoa html writer in the extraneous code that was generated. I suspect that Text Edit did this, but can't figure out why or how.
Thanks,
icesailor
You must change the filename extension to "html"; e.g., "foo.html" not "foo.txt".
This has lead me to a partial solution. I used the html selection in text edit. Doing this apparently generates the extraneous code while trying to make the file as written display rather than using the code as written. If I simply change the extension in the finder, it sort of works. There is a lot of non-html bracketed code displayed at the top of the page and extraneous backslashes after headings. It's nice to know that Text Edit has this capability, but really, why bother with something like this in what is supposed to be a simple text editor? This feature seems not to be documented in Text Edit Help.
You want to save as plain text, not rich text.
Plain text is not one of the choices for file formats in the version of Text Edit on my machine. OS 10.9.3. RTF seems to be as close as one can get.
From the Format menu, select Make Plain Text.
Simple text edit html files will not display as web pages using Safari
