Using Win XP SP2

I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
Thanks.

David B. scribed:

>Using Win XP SP2
>
>I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
>it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
>the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
>Thanks.

Make sure you have htm files associated with your browser.
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David B. wrote:

> Using Win XP SP2
>
> I wrote up a XHTML file

See: http://tekrider.net/html/doctype.php

> using notepad. Now I want my browser to open it as a web page but it
> only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing the extension to .htm
> but its still a .txt file. What do I do?

What was it prior to ".htm" ?

Post a link/URL to the file.

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On 24 Apr, 18:18, David B. <tall_wal...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Using Win XP SP2
>
> I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
> it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
> the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?

Hack around in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and switch off
the desktop option uder Tools | Folder options | View | Advanced |
Hide extensions for known file types

If you have this option on (by default), Windows assumes that you're
too stupid to understand a file extension, so it hides them from you.
If you enter one (such as .htm) when editing something that Widnows
thinks is already a ".txt" file, then it thinks you're using some sort
of internal part of the basename and not an extension ('cos you're too
stupid to understand those). Windows then makes you a text file with a
htm in it, as the name "example.htm.txt"

Alternatively, when saving files from Windows-OCD tools like NotePad
use the "All file types" option and type the whole name in there,
including the extension.

Best of all, use a real editor. Editors from people who actually use
editors don't do this stuff.

Andy Dingley wrote:
> On 24 Apr, 18:18, David B. <tall_wal...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Using Win XP SP2
>>
>> I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
>> it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
>> the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
>
> Hack around in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and switch off
> the desktop option uder Tools | Folder options | View | Advanced |
> Hide extensions for known file types

Something I advise all Windows users to do, should be off by default.
Since the file extension is *so* important to MS's OS it should never be
hidden and dupe poor newbies in to such trouble with

"readme.txt .exe"

Can add the real *WOW* to Windows...

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Andy Dingley <dingbat@codesmiths.com> writes:

> On 24 Apr, 18:18, David B. <tall_wal...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Using Win XP SP2
>>
>> I wrote up a XHTML file using notepad. Now I want my browser to open
>> it as a web page but it only sees it as a .txt file. I tried changing
>> the extension to .htm but its still a .txt file. What do I do?
>
> Hack around in Windows Explorer (NOT Internet Explorer) and switch off
> the desktop option uder Tools | Folder options | View | Advanced |
> Hide extensions for known file types

Clicking a checkbox in a config dialog qualifies as "hacking"? Setting the
bar rather low these days, aren't we? Kids today... :-)

> If you have this option on (by default), Windows assumes that you're
> too stupid to understand a file extension, so it hides them from you.
> If you enter one (such as .htm) when editing something that Widnows
> thinks is already a ".txt" file, then it thinks you're using some sort
> of internal part of the basename and not an extension ('cos you're too
> stupid to understand those). Windows then makes you a text file with a
> htm in it, as the name "example.htm.txt"

A popular phishing attack is based on that too. The phisher emails the
victim a program named "jennanaked.jpg.exe". The victim, unaware of the
".exe" extension that Windows is so fully hiding, clicks on what he
thinks is an image.

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