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HTML 101

By Scot Hacker

Published November 18, 2008 in Tutorials

Time to start learning HTML? We've re-written our HTML 101 tutorial from scratch, with just enough code to get you started on the road to self-sufficiency.

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1 Elise Ackerman says...

I'm sure this is a dumb question but here goes. I am just trying out basic HTML in TextEdit on a MacBook Pro using Firefox and the html is not rendering when I open the file. It just shows up exactly how I typed it. At first I tried saving it in html and that didn't work. Then I saw a note on a forum to change the format to "make plain text." I've tried that as well, but I'm getting the exact same result. Does anyone know what I'm doing wrong? I am typing the code exactly how it is written in the tutorial (I have even tried cutting and pasting it, as well as retying it)

Posted at 2 a.m. on November 28, 2008

2 Elise Ackerman says...

I was able to fix this by clicking Format>Make Plain Text and then saving the file as html.

Posted at 9:38 p.m. on November 28, 2008

3 Scot Hacker says...

Hi Elise - I've added some information and a screenshot to that page of the HTML tutorial on making sure TextEdit is set for plain text only. Thanks!

Posted at 1:21 p.m. on December 1, 2008

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