Comments on: The Default View Source Editor Has Changed in Internet Explorer 8

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:56:27 +0000

I tried the second method and there is no view source editor in my ie tree very odd.

By: lisa

lisa — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 16:49:51 +0000

Hmm very odd my file>edit says edit with adobe illustrator and trying to change this with method one does nothing

By: Jenny

Jenny — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:04:01 +0000

Thank you so much for this! Not being able to edit in Notepad was so frustrating until I came across this site. Again, thanks very much for posting this info!

By: Binary Logic

Binary Logic — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 17:32:47 +0000

Thanks for this, the change to View Source had me stymied and was quite frustrating until I found this page.
Like phil I cannot figure out why this change was made in IE8 and why there’s no documentation about how to get back to using Notepad; even in IE8>Help>View Source there’s no indication of how to get around the change and back to what works.

By: phil

phil — Sun, 06 Dec 2009 17:59:43 +0000

I cannot see a single reason for haveing a view-source doc that cannot be edited. This seems so stupid that it makes me mad. The colors are good,why not add notepad’s editing features?

By: Vijay Jain

Vijay Jain — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:58:18 +0000

Hi Gilda Marie Granado-Melendrez,

If you are trying to edit HTML pages which you have opened suing Internet, you can’t edit them as those files lie on Server. You can only edit the HTML files which are on your desktop. Means HTML files that you might have created as part of your project or something else.

I followed the above given steps and I was very well able to cgange the default viewer and also able to edit and see the changes.

By: Vijay Jain

Vijay Jain — Thu, 29 Oct 2009 17:54:38 +0000

Man you are awesome. I was bugged up with the view source option of IE8. Before hitting google I tried everything I can i IE8. Then I enable the Menu bar and saw an option “File->Edit with Notepad”. But still it wasn’t so easy . Actually I don’t like the Menu Bar itself. Then googled. The first 2 results didn’t have any answer, I suppose they are still waiting for an answer. Then I tried other search results, and volia your page. Thanks a lot for the help.

By: Ap.Muthu

Ap.Muthu — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:26:03 +0000

The only workaround for Notepad++ is to set the “Default Language” to HTML inside it in:
Settings -> Preferences -> New Document/Default Directory

By: Ap.Muthu

Ap.Muthu — Sat, 24 Oct 2009 01:22:30 +0000

Using “Other”-> Notepad++ for the registry entry Editor Name how do we pass command line switches?
For example:
C:\Program Files\Notepad++\Notepad++.exe -lhtml
does not work.

By: Gilda Marie Granado-Melendrez

Gilda Marie Granado-Melendrez — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 04:34:36 +0000

I have changed the source/view to notepad but when I copy and paste new info it does not save. Can someone help me please.