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.
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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
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- 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.”
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.
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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).
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