I have some HTML source code that needs to be altered slightly here and there but once I have altered the source code and try to open it again with IE or Firefox it only shows the source code, not a complete webpage.

I have saved and altered the source code as a .txt, and .rtf but to no avail.

Any advice will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

 

save as txt

rename to *.html

you may need to turn off "hide extension for known types"in folder options

 

:werd: just open it in notepad, then save it as filename.html, itll save it as a site

 

Save the source code with a .html extension

 

X3

 

OK, I did what you recommended and it worked, but I have ran into a snag:

After I altered the HTML code and opened it with Firefox, all of the borders/outlines are not there and everything is jumbled up. Without these borders/outlines all of the text is where I do not want it to be.

Any help?

**EDIT**

I noticed that on the original HTML code, the bracket/outline bit I mentioned cannot be highlighted for whatever reason but everything else can.

 

I must be learning something...I knew that!!

 

IE, Firefox, Opera, Safari all render HTML code differently. So what may look good in IE will look like crap in Firefox or vice versa.

Unfortunately you basically have to design for IE and or have a javascript that detects the browser and loads a website accordingly.

Are you using tables or css frames?

 

CSS frames.

 

It all looks like crap when I load it in both IE and Firefox.

What makes me curious is that it told me (when using IE) that it might not saved correctly if I wanted to save the whole page and it did not save correctly.

With Firefox, it said does not let me save at all. The address was highlighted in yellow and had a lock symbol in the yellow highlight too.