TextEdit User Guide
You can use TextEdit to edit or display HTML documents as you’d see them in a browser (images may not appear), or in code-editing mode.
Note: By default, curly quotes and em dashes are substituted for straight quotes and hyphens when editing HTML as formatted text. (Code-editing mode uses straight quotes and hyphens.) To learn how to change this preference, see New Document options.
Create an HTML file
- Dec 03, 2014 TextEdit is a free word processor included in OS X that offers powerful rich text formatting options. But sometimes it's best to use TextEdit to handle plain text documents. Here's an overview of.
- Your text editor (typically an application called TextEdit) will open, displaying all the headers for the message, followed by the message body. If you need to copy the headers (to paste somewhere else), Drag over the text from the beginning of the text to the beginning of the body of the message.
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > New, then choose Format > Make Plain Text.
Enter the HTML code.
Choose File > Save, type a name followed by the extension .html (for example, enter index.html), then click Save.
When prompted about the extension to use, click “Use .html.”
You can use the tab stops on the ruler to align text. In the TextEdit app on your Mac, do any of the following. Add a tab stop: Click the ruler where you want the tab stop. Change the type of tab stop: Control-click a tab stop, then choose one of the following tab stops: Left tab: Left-aligns text. Center tab: Centers text. Right tab: Right-aligns text.
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View an HTML document
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose File > Open, then select the document.
Click Options at the bottom of the TextEdit dialog, then select “Ignore rich text commands.”
Click Open.
Always open HTML files in code-editing mode
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click Open and Save.
Select “Display HTML files as HTML code instead of formatted text.”
Change how HTML files are saved
Set preferences that affect how HTML files are saved in TextEdit.
In the TextEdit app on your Mac, choose TextEdit > Preferences, then click Open and Save.
Below HTML Saving Options, choose a document type, a style setting for CSS, and an encoding.
Select “Preserve white space” to include code that preserves blank areas in documents.
If you open an HTML file and don’t see the code, TextEdit is displaying the file the same way a browser would (as formatted text).