Im using TextEdit in OS X and it defaults to saving something called an “RTF” file. How do I save an HTML file?
“RTF” stands for Rich Text Format and is a document format used to share files between applications, preserving much of the visual formatting. To use Text Edit to open, edit, and save HTML files, you need to edit TextEdit’s Preferences window: • Under New Document Format, select the “Plain text” radio button. • To cause long text lines to wrap, check the “Wrap to Page” check box. • Under Saving, uncheck the “Append ‘.txt’ extenion to plain text files” check box. • Under Rich Text Processing, check the “Ignore rich text commands in HTML files” check box. Then just save your text files with an .html extension and they’ll be saved as plain ASCII text files that will be displayable as Web pages in browsers, not Rich Text Files (which can’t be viewed in browsers). You can also still use SimpleText — it should be in your folder of OS 9 applications, but it will be slower to load, which may not be desirable. There are also a number of more advanced text editors and text editor-like HTML edit
