Using text edit to view html code

Why does text edit open a web page as if it's a web browser??? I want to use text edit to edit my html code and I can't open a web page in plain text view...it tries to render the page. Doesn't Apple have a text only app like Notepad for Windows?

I searched for text edit, not textedit - until after I posted this. sorry

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That is because you don't have a web server configured and running to serve the html page. In order to see the page in a browser you need to access it using a url similar to http://localhost/~yourUserName if you are serving the page from your user account.
Prior to Mountain Lion you could go into web sharing and turn on the web server. With Mountain Lion there is no option, other than using terminal, to turn on the web server. The web sharing menu item has been removed in Mountain Lion. Apache is still on your computer but it will take a little searching these forums or the Internet to find how to turn it on.
If you want a graphic user interface to turn on/off the Apache server you could download and install a server application like xampp, http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html. I use this and it works well.

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I'm building a website for a class project and am using text edit with html. I have been successful creating a webpage, but everytime I save and reopen text edit, I am unable to continue working on my original project. Suggestion?

You have force TextEdit to append .html at the end of each new file, cause it insists on using .txt if plain or .rtf if fancy. And as for OPENING preexisting .html files, Safari will try and beat you to it. So you either have to control-click the victim and do an Open with... or drag and drop it onto TextEdit on the dock.
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I don't use Myspace, but if you're given an HTML box to fill in, it will almost certainly show as code until you submit it, and then, if the code is correct, it should display your layout correctly as text and images on the new page.
Note that images may not transfer correctly unless their source tags contain absolute references - eg "http://yahoo.com/images/myimage1.jpg" should be fine, but "../images/image1.jpg" will not work.
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Fortunately I have just recently found a solution to my problem by using code by a developer who had already had this problem in the past and who provided a patch on the Apache MyFaces jira site.
See following link for the solution I downloaded and then used :
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openEffect : 'none',
closeEffect     : 'none',
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openEffect : 'none',
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title : {
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overlay : {
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closeEffect : 'elastic',
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closeClick : true,
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openEffect : 'none',
closeEffect : 'none',
prevEffect : 'none',
nextEffect : 'none',
closeBtn : false,
helpers : {
title : {
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prevEffect : 'none',
nextEffect : 'none',
closeBtn : false,
arrows    : false,
nextClick : true,
helpers : {
thumbs : {
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height : 50
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openEffect : 'none',
closeEffect : 'none',
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arrows : false,
helpers : {
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$("#fancybox-manual-b").click(function() {
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padding : 5
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href : '1_b.jpg',
title : 'My title'
href : '2_b.jpg',
title : '2nd title'
href : '3_b.jpg'
helpers : {
thumbs : {
width: 75,
height: 50
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