I'm learning HTML. And I can't see my tags anymore! Plz help!?

Question

As it says in the book, I opened Microsoft Word, I pressed "Save As", I wrote "editing.html" (betwwen "), I started writhing the code and I viewed it as a web page in a separate icon. So far, so good.
But I turned off the computer and when I started it, in my editing.html, after choosing 'edit with Microsoft Word', I could only see the 'result', the bold, italic text. Not the tags!!!!
Please help, I want to see the programme I worked on!
I don't know what I did wrong!

Answer 1

just opne the html file with notepad. Word sometimes recognises and changes html tags to actual fonts. notepad doesn't.

Answer 2

I'm guessing a bit here but I think you may not have changed the file extension when you came to "save as". You should have selected "Web Page - htm,html". What you probably have is a file called "editing.html.doc"! I don't think there is any way you can recoup your code and will have to start again.

Word is a terrible program for working on web pages,anyway. It bloats out the code. Can I suggest for your next attempt you work in Notepad and, when it comes to saving it, call it "editing.html" as before and choose "All Files" in the dropdown.

Good luck!

Answer 3

Personally, if you're only doing bold/italic tags, you'd be better suited to using Notepad (or a free but better product called Notepad++).

Then, to view your file, you simply have to open the file in your browser as well, and refresh it to see the changes that you've made take effect. You can do this in Internet Explorer or FireFox, by pressing the F5 key.

Answer 4

I'd suggest using FrontPage instead of Word, since FrontPage is a web page editor, while word is not. Microsoft Word only shows you the output of the code.



Alternately you could try using Notepad, or Notepad++. Check out the source bellow it'll teach you basic HTML fast and simple.

Answer 5

You are viewing the rendered HTML, not the raw HTML. Word is trying to anticipate your needs and assuming that you are a 'surfer' rather than a developer.



You need to change the view of the file so Word shows you what you want to see.

Answer 6

Yeah, just open it in Notepad or try a free solution that will give you at least some functionality of an IDE like Notepad++.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notepad++