HTML-kit Help !

[DaveinLondon]

Hi all.
I have just started using HTML-kit and it looks great but whenever I click on a webpage on my c: drive to look at it instead of my browser starting up the HTML-kit starts up. Its a real pain! Do anyone now how I switch it off so that this does not happen ?

I have looked for "Preferences in the HTML-kit menu but couldn't find them.

Thanks for your help !
Dave

[Charles]

You don't turn that off for any given application, you turn it on for some other one. You browser should have an option that makes it the default for "htm" and "html" extensions. If you can't find it then there is a way to do it long hand, but it's a pain.

[MstrBob]

That's because HTML-Kit has been set as the default program to open html files. Go to a html file, right click it, and go to

Open With > Choose Program...

Select your browser and check the box that says "Always Use This Program to Open These Files" and click OK. Should work.

[metal5]

Hi

Just open your browser instead of the C: drive, click on file, click the 'open' and browse in your C: there for your webpage.

metal5

[DaveinLondon]

I dont't have an OPEN WITH when I right click - only an OPEN. and when i open it jumps straight to the HTML-Kit.

Using the browser to open the file is a bit slow - I want to reset the default to open with my browser - but where do I set the default ? Any more ideas please !

[metal5]

Hi;

I;ll go back and try to do what your doing with my computer. We may have totally different computer systems here. If I go into my C: drive and open a web page, the browser will open it. I usually open my webpage just by opening the browser and using the 'open file' option through the 'file'option to the far left in the browser heading.

But, let me re-read what you wrote.

I'll get back to you.

metal5

[metal5]

Maybe it would work if you transferred all your webpages out of the html-kit folder and put them in a new folder but in the same location. If the html-kit is something that was advertised, sometimes these types of things are stubborn and will keep interfering with what you are doing. Try to separate the html-kit from your actual web pages but keep them in the same location.

Example:

You have the html-kit in mydocuments. Well, make a new folder in the mydocuments location and call it whatever you like, then transfer all your webpages out of this html-kit folder into the new folder.

Its hard to tell you what to do, because I can't see whats going on on your side.

If the html-kit is a program and has to keep your webpages connected this way, I would just learn html with a book by using notepad. This way you would not have this confusing interference.

A good book is called xhtml, which is the latest form of html, and its name is, HTML fo the world wide web w/xhtml and css; author Elizabeth Castro; 5th edition. You can purchas it online at: http://www.peachpit.com or try, http://www.cookwood.com

I have become much more adept at my webpage writing since studying this book all the way through. Maybe this kit you have isn't very user friendly?

I hope this helps.

metal5

[Fang]

Open Explorer, on the menu bar click on:
Tools > Folder Options... > File Types
Scroll down to and click on file extention(s) HTM/HTML
Click on Change... , select your browser from the list.

In HTML-Kit, on the menu bar click on:
Edit > Preferences... > Startup
Make sure "Check to see if HTML-Kit is the default HTML editor" is not checked.
By re-checking this option the windows intergration window pops up, loads of options here.

[Charles]

As I mentioned above, each browser should have a way for you to set it as the default. You cannot use HTML-Kit to make your HTML documents open in Opera, you need to open up Opera and play with its settings.

What browser do you want as your default?

[MstrBob]

HTML-Kit is actually very user friendly, tells which tags are depreceated, ect., ect. I won't start another "Notepad isn't a Code Editor" debate. You have set HTML kit to be the default program to open html files. What OS are you using that you don't have an Open With ?

[DaveinLondon]

First off - thanks for your input.

I am running win 98 and would like my default browser to be Mozilla Firefox.

I tried to make achange in Explorer using View, folder options, file types but when I scrool down and double-click on the 'HTML document' it says 'Change Icon'
I change this to Firefox but so far no changes to the file associations ??

[DaveinLondon]

I also then double clicked on the line that says 'Edit with HTML-Kit' and the changed the application path to fire fox program. I then re-booted and found all the html files had the firefox symbol next to them ( when veiwed with powerdesk) so 'great!' I thought ! But when double-clicking I still get it opened with HTML-kit.

The Mozilla Firefox is the default browser but the KIT still insists on opening each time I try to load an HTML ?
There must be a way to prevent this ?

If I don't find one I'll have to uninstall it and re-install hoping that the setup has some config on it ?

Any more suggestions -- please !

[Charles]

1) Open Firefox like I've been telling you.

2) Pull down the Tools menu.

3) Select Options...

4) Click on "General".

5) Click where it says "Set Firefox as your default browser."

[DaveinLondon]

Did that already !

As I wrote:

' The Mozilla Firefox is the default browser but the KIT still insists on opening each time I try to load an HTML ?
There must be a way to prevent this ? '

but thanks anyways :cool:

[Fang]

In HTML-Kit's windows intergration window make sure "Open HTML files using HTML-Kit" is not checked.

The Explorer method I gave was for XP, this is for win98:
Tools > Folder Options... > File Types
Scroll down to and click on file extention(s) HTM/HTML
Select "HTML Document" then Edit
Select "Open" in Actions, then Edit
Browse to and select Firefox, Use DDE should be checked.

[Charles]

Originally posted by DaveinLondon
Did that already !

As I wrote:

' The Mozilla Firefox is the default browser but the KIT still insists on opening each time I try to load an HTML ?
There must be a way to prevent this ? '

but thanks anyways :cool: Yes, but you described changing the icon, which is not the same thing as changing the default browser.

As Fang has suggested, you want to check to make sure that HTML Kit doesn't undo your changes then you'll want to use either the rest of Fang's instructions or give Firefox another chance.

[metal5]

Drop the kit, learn by book or online course with a text editor you have faith in. No offense, but I would just uninstall the kit. It is much better to html by scratch and build from scratch. You'll become a better web designer and it pays dividends to be able to just build a kit such as what you have.

I hope you find your niche with this. It sounds like your having a real headache with this kit.

[metal5]

I didn't mean build the kit. I meant build without the kit by scratch from a book, online course, and with a text editor you have faith in.

Say, "Goodbye kit, but I now will dominate my own html education", since it sounds like this kit wants its way or the highway for you.

metal5

[DaveinLondon]

Thanks Charles , Fangs instructions:

'Open Explorer,'
-- I guess this means Windows Explorer
( not internet explorer)

'on the menu bar click on:
Tools > Folder Options... > File Types'
-- Done that (there is 'General',View and File types) selected file types.

'Scroll down to and click on file
extention(s) HTM/HTML'
-- Well I have 3 'HTML document'
1st is HTM HTML SHTML
2nd is PLG HTW
3rd is XHT XHTML

I am selecting 1st.
Single click - I have 3 boxes:
New Type, Remove & Edit.
OR Double click - I get a new window caled 'Edit File Type' with a button which says 'Change icon' and underneath it says 'Description of Type' and 'Content type (MIME)'
and under that a List of Actions then 4 buttons New Edit Remove and Default.

SO - NO CHANGE OPTION - I am STUCK !!
Click on Change... , select your browser from the list.

I am using Win 98

Any ideas gratefully accepted !
Thanks

[Fang]

In the "Edit File Type" window:
Select "Open" in Actions, then Edit
Browse to and select Firefox, Use DDE should be checked.

[MstrBob]

Originally posted by metal5
Drop the kit, learn by book or online course with a text editor you have faith in. No offense, but I would just uninstall the kit. It is much better to html by scratch and build from scratch. You'll become a better web designer and it pays dividends to be able to just build a kit such as what you have.

I hope you find your niche with this. It sounds like your having a real headache with this kit.

A text editor? :rolleyes: What developer would use a text editor to right code in? Obviously you haven't done any scripting, or you'd realized the value of line numbering and syntax highlighting and built in preview mode. Besides, HTML-Kit is not a WYSIWYG, it's only for hand coding. He probably accidentally set it to be the default program for HTML files, something which Fang and Charles have done quite well to help him fix.

[DaveinLondon]

Thanks Fang for clarifying it !
And to you Charles. It now works fine and behaves itself - only picking up things that its told to !

Thanks again, Dave.