Editors for HTML text
HTML files are text files, so any text editor can be used to make them.
Text editors are programmes that let you make changes to written text. To make a website, we have to write our code in a text editor.
You can directly download many different types of text editors, but the best text editors for beginners are Notepad (Windows) or TextEdit (Mac).
After you’ve learned the basics, you’ll be able to use other professional text editors like Notepad++, Sublime Text, Vim, etc., with ease.
We will use Notepad and sublime text editor in our tutorial. Here are some easy ways to use Notepad and sublime text to make your first web page.
Use Notepad to write HTML code. (Recommended for Beginners)
Notepad is a simple text editor that is good for people just starting out with HTML. It comes with all versions of Windows and is easy to get to from there.
Step 1: Open Notepad (Windows)
Step 2: Write code in HTML
Step 3: Save the HTML file with an extension of either.htm or.html.
Step 4: Open your web browser and go to the HTML page.
To run the HTML page, you have to go to where you saved the file and either double-click on the file or click on the “Open with” button.
Any browser can run an HTML file, but there are some tags that some browsers don’t support.