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Editing and Viewing

HTML Files
In this chapter, you will learn how to
4 Open a Web page in Notepad.
4 Preview a Web page in Internet Explorer.
4 Make, save, and view changes.

As you work through this book’s exercises, you’ll learn HTML by creating and editing
text files in Notepad, and then viewing them in a Web browser to check your work. This
chapter teaches the important basic skills you need to work in these programs.

See Also  Do you need only a quick refresher on the topics in this chapter? See the Key Points
section at the end of this chapter.

Practice Files  Before you can use the practice files provided for this chapter, you need to
download and install them from the book’s companion content location. See “Using the
Practice Files” at the beginning of this book for more information.

Opening a Web Page in Notepad

Notepad is included with all versions of Windows, and you’ll find it in the All Programs
(or Programs)/Accessories folder on the Start menu. It’s a simple text editor that saves
only in plain text format. That’s ideal for HTML editing because you don’t need to worry
about any extra word processing formatting being included in the file.

Note  You are welcome to use a different text editor application to complete the exercises in
this book. Notepad is just a suggestion.

When saving or opening files in Notepad, the default file extension is .txt. The Save and
Open dialog boxes are set by default to filter file listings so only those files with .txt exten-
sions appear. That means each time you browse for a file, you need to change the file type
to All Files so you can browse for Web pages (which have .htm or .html extensions).