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  • David B.
    #1

    How to make my file a .htm?

    Using Win XP SP2

    I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
    it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
    the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
    Thanks.
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    • Ed Jay
      #2
      Re: How to make my file a .htm?

      David B. scribed:
      >Using Win XP SP2
      >
      >I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
      >it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
      >the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
      >Thanks.
      Make sure you have htm files associated with your browser.
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      Ed Jay (remove 'M' to respond by email)

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        • Beauregard T. Shagnasty
          #3
          Re: How to make my file a .htm?

          David B. wrote:
          Using Win XP SP2
          >
          I wrote up a XHTML file
          See: http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php
          using notepad. Now I want my browser to open it as a web page but it
          only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing the extension to .htm
          but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
          What was it prior to ".htm" ?

          Post a link/URL to the file.

          --
          -bts
          -Motorcycles defy gravity; cars just suck

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            • dorayme
              #4
              Re: How to make my file a .htm?

              In article <l1g114pmu1kf52 gpc5v8v9ctkdohf ptn3f@4ax.com>,
              David B. <tall_walker@ya hoo.comwrote:
              Using Win XP SP2
              >
              I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
              it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
              the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
              Thanks.
              If you copy and paste this into notepad and save as template.html and
              open it from within a browser, what happens?

              <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
              "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
              <html>
              <head>
              <title>template </title>
              </head>
              <body>
              <h1>Main heading</h1>
              <h2>Secondary heading</h2>
              <p>paragraph</p>
              </body>
              </html>

              --
              dorayme

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                • Andy Dingley
                  #5
                  Re: How to make my file a .htm?

                  On 24 Apr, 18:18, David B. <tall_wal...@ya hoo.comwrote:
                  Using Win XP SP2
                  >
                  I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
                  it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
                  the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
                  Hack around in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and switch off
                  the desktop option uder Tools | Folder options | View | Advanced |
                  Hide extensions for known file types

                  If you have this option on (by default), Windows assumes that you're
                  too stupid to understand a file extension, so it hides them from you.
                  If you enter one (such as .htm) when editing something that Widnows
                  thinks is already a ".txt" file, then it thinks you're using some sort
                  of internal part of the basename and not an extension ('cos you're too
                  stupid to understand those). Windows then makes you a text file with a
                  htm in it, as the name "example.htm.tx t"

                  Alternatively, when saving files from Windows-OCD tools like NotePad
                  use the "All file types" option and type the whole name in there,
                  including the extension.

                  Best of all, use a real editor. Editors from people who actually use
                  editors don't do this stuff.

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                    • Jonathan N. Little
                      #6
                      Re: How to make my file a .htm?

                      Andy Dingley wrote:
                      On 24 Apr, 18:18, David B. <tall_wal...@ya hoo.comwrote:
                      >Using Win XP SP2
                      >>
                      >I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
                      >it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
                      >the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
                      >
                      Hack around in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and switch off
                      the desktop option uder Tools | Folder options | View | Advanced |
                      Hide extensions for known file types
                      Something I advise all Windows users to do, should be off by default.
                      Since the file extension is *so* important to MS's OS it should never be
                      hidden and dupe poor newbies in to such trouble with

                      "readme.txt .exe"

                      Can add the real *WOW* to Windows...

                      --
                      Take care,

                      Jonathan
                      -------------------
                      LITTLE WORKS STUDIO
                      Little Works Studio Site Maintainance
                      http://www.LittleWorksStudio.com

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                        • Sherman Pendley
                          #7
                          Re: How to make my file a .htm?

                          Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesm iths.comwrites:
                          On 24 Apr, 18:18, David B. <tall_wal...@ya hoo.comwrote:
                          >Using Win XP SP2
                          >>
                          >I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
                          >it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
                          >the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
                          >
                          Hack around in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and switch off
                          the desktop option uder Tools | Folder options | View | Advanced |
                          Hide extensions for known file types
                          Clicking a checkbox in a config dialog qualifies as "hacking"? Setting the
                          bar rather low these days, aren't we? Kids today... :-)
                          If you have this option on (by default), Windows assumes that you're
                          too stupid to understand a file extension, so it hides them from you.
                          If you enter one (such as .htm) when editing something that Widnows
                          thinks is already a ".txt" file, then it thinks you're using some sort
                          of internal part of the basename and not an extension ('cos you're too
                          stupid to understand those). Windows then makes you a text file with a
                          htm in it, as the name "example.htm.tx t"
                          A popular phishing attack is based on that too. The phisher emails the
                          victim a program named "jennanaked.jpg .exe". The victim, unaware of the
                          ".exe" extension that Windows is so helpfully hiding, clicks on what he
                          thinks is an image.

                          sherm--

                          --
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                          Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net

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