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

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.

By: Jack Trewren

Jack Trewren — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 23:02:53 +0000

Thank You! Thank You! I have been trying to figure-out this one for a month.

By: Georgio

Georgio — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:36:19 +0000

Thank YoU!

By: Typegeek

Typegeek — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:59:17 +0000

Thanks. This was a suprise to me too.

By: Mike Jaeger

Mike Jaeger — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 08:06:50 +0000

Thanks for that.

By: Rex Last

Rex Last — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:22:36 +0000

Thanks indeed for that! I always use View Source for editing and the shock of losing the ability to edit without a lot of fiddling around for source files was almost too much for my old bones.