IE6 doesn't recognize HTML from notepad

J

JP to the T

Hi folks-- I'm just getting started writing a web page in HTML and have a
book to assist me, but it teaches HTML 4, so I don't know if it's out of
date or what.

The problem is that I wrote an extremely basic html script in windows
notepad, copied verbatim from this book, and saved it as a .txt file. I
followed all the instructions, but when I tried to open it as a web page
from within IE6, it displays the code instead of the page. Any advice on
this? PS here's the code I wrote:

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to my website!</title>
</head>
<body>
A bit of text, this is my first ever web page.
</body>
</html>
 
L

Lord Vader III

JP said:
Hi folks-- I'm just getting started writing a web page in HTML and have a
book to assist me, but it teaches HTML 4, so I don't know if it's out of
date or what.

The problem is that I wrote an extremely basic html script in windows
notepad, copied verbatim from this book, and saved it as a .txt file. I
followed all the instructions, but when I tried to open it as a web page
from within IE6, it displays the code instead of the page. Any advice on
this? PS here's the code I wrote:

<html>
<head>
<title>Welcome to my website!</title>
</head>
<body>
A bit of text, this is my first ever web page.
</body>
</html>
Click to expand...

You need to save it as an .htm or .html file.
 
J

JP to the T

You have to save it as an .html file

But I can't. From within notepad, I can only save as two file type options,
*.txt, or "All Files." Encoding options are ANSI, Unicode, Unicode big
endian, or UTF-8. This is the "Save As" dialog box, not the Control-O
function. What I've been trying to do is save as .txt, but then rename the
file with a .htm or .html suffix, but this only creates something like
"webpage.html.txt"

Thanks, JP
 
R

Ron Sommer

Put webpage.html in the name box.
Change the type to all files.

Or put the name in quotes
"webpage.html"
 
B

Bill Rothe

Simple: Right click on the .txt file and rename it as a .htm file. Answer
"yes" to the change extension warning box.

Bill Rothe
 

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