The Essential Guide to HTML5

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CHAPTER 1


processing program, which may insert non-text characters. Notepad also works, though TextPad has
benefits such as color-coding that Ill demonstrate. To use the editor, you open it up and type in the code.
Figure 1-7 shows what the TextPad screen looks like.


Figure 1-7. Starting off in TextPad


You will want to save your work frequently and, most important, save it as the file type .html. In TextPad,
click on File ➤ Save As and then change the Save as type to HTML, as shown in Figure 1-8.


Figure 1-8. Saving a file as type HTML

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