Html on textedit (mac)

Question

Hello, I am trying to do this on my computer and found that when on TextEdit, I can automatically save as a html file, but when opened, I am shown everything including the tags. Anyone know how to address this?

Answer 1

Textedit is by default in word processing mode so anything written in it would not be considered as plain text thus when saved with HTML extension will also contains a lot of unwanted stuff with it(which you can easily see by opening this file in any other text editor)

To make/work with HTML file, select format > Make Plain text ( shortcut for it is shift + cmd + T )

Now your textedit would be in plain text mode and your html file will be displayed as it should be.