Notepad++ Options

[minidiapolis]

Hi, if I click view, source, when it opens in notepad ++ the html tags are in different colors from the plain text. However, the minute I save the file or start a new file, the html tags aren't in different colors. What's wrong?

[pandy]

Does the file have and .html extension when you view sopurce? If not, save as xxx.html. Same when you paste the text into a new document.

[pandy]

Come to think of it, isn't Notepad++ based on SciTE? I don't have it ATM but IIRC it is. Then there probably is a menu where you can choose the language for the syntax highlighting.

[minidiapolis]

Saving it with the html fixed it, thanks so much! This might be a stupid question but since I save it with the html extension, does it matter if the website is http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~mjsmith/resume or http://www.cs.iupui.edu/~mjsmith/resume.html?

[stjepan]

Someone said: "As long as the MIME type on the server says it's an HTML file, you can have any extension be an HTML file... Alternatively, you can have a .html file that has an incorrect MIME type associated with it, and gets treated as text!"