TextEdit is a word processor/text editor in Mac OS X Leopard that you can use to create documents, write letters, scribble notes, or open Read Me files. Although TextEdit isn’t as sophisticated as Microsoft Word (or even AppleWorks or Pages), you can definitely use the OS X TextEdit. The creators made this tool to replace the standard Notepad application. However, TextEdit for Mac is not available, therefore, you might want to use other tools to edit texts and create websites. The following list provides you with some programs that can easily replace TextEdit for Mac.
I’m always switching back and forth between my PC and Mac. One of the things I love about PC when editing websites is that Notepad defaults to plain text, there isn’t any formatting or anything that will mess up your code. By contrast, on my Mac TextEdit defaults to rich text and preserves formatting. It also tries to append .txt to the end of files and that’s just not what I’m looking for.
Sometimes all I want is a blank space where I can drop in some text, get rid of the formatting and save as a draft. This is especially true when I’m backing up files locally or trying to take text from Word or Acrobat and get rid of any formatting before pasting it into a blog. Here are the steps you need to take in order to turn off rich text formatting in TextEdit and make it perform more like Notepad.
- Launch TextEdit and go to TextEdit > Preferences
- On the New Document tab select the radio button for Plain Text
- On the Open and Save tab select the check box for Ignore rich text commands in HTML files and deselect the check box for Add “.txt” extension to plain text files
Once you’ve completed these three steps simply exit the TextEdit program and when you relaunch you will see that the formatting menu is gone from individual documents, this is how you can tell you are no longer in rich text mode.
.htm files are text only (no images). What you are getting confused about is the fact there are some web archive formats that save documents as they appear on the internet from your web browser. Unfortunately those formatted files themselves are only interchangeable between browsers of the same version.
Textedit For Mac Html Editor
If you want PC users to be able to see images of your website, get a webhosting server and host the images there, and upload the .htm files to the same server with references to those document. The jpegs are stand alone files that are referenced with the HTML IMG tag. To learn more about developing websites, see http://www.webmonkey.com/
Textedit For Mac Html Plugin
May 1, 2011 11:25 AM