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For example, you can use TextEdit, the text editor included with Mac OS X (Note: you must select Format, Make Plain Text before you enter your code in TextEdit). Here is an example of the “bare bones” code you need to type for any web page:īecause it is just text with special formatting tags applied to it, any text editor can be used to create web pages with HTML. Learning just a handful of these HTML codes will allow you to create a web page. There are also tags to tell the browser how to link to another page on the Internet (such as Link to FCIT) if certain text or graphics are clicked. There are tags to tell the browser when to start a new paragraph or when to make a font larger. In the preceding example, the word and would appear in bold, but only if we use the tag which has the / in it to denote that it is a closing tag. This language consists of formatting tags that are made up by phrases enclosed in greater than > and less than and tags. It was.Web documents are text documents that have had formatting applied to them using a special language called HTML (HyperText Markup Language). Looking at the monospaced dullness, you may wonder: was it really worth it? Trust me. Turn “Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text” on: Enable showing HTML code in TextEdit preferencesĪfterwards, you can edit the template and finally change the basedir in the header: Now you'll see HTML in all its glory. Open the preferences and switch to the “Open and Save” tab. There’s a switch in TextEdit to stop rendering HTML files and edit them visually. To change the template, though, you will need to change (invisible) meta data in the code. If you perform any changes now, you’ll edit the visible part of the file. TextEdit treats HTML files as it treats other rich text file types like Word documents: it renders them in a What You See Is What You Get fashion.

Don't save the file or you'll lose hidden parts of the code! If you followed the instructions to change the preview template of nvALT until where you need to change the basedir to point to your note archive, you may open the template.html file with TextEdit and end up with this: If you see this when you open HTML files in TextEdit, you have to change the settings.

Here’s how you configure TextEdit, Apple’s own editor which comes with every Mac by default, to edit HTML files the way you need to. html file in the first place without some effort. Turns out that you probably aren’t able to edit the preview. In June, I told you about how to customize nvALT’s Markdown preview template so you can include images from a sub-directory of your notes’ directory with ease.
