Don't know the answer to your question, but you might want to switch to TextWrangler, free from BareBones. It has several features that would make text editing easier. It even color-codes your HTML code and checks for closed tags etc. : <http://www.barebones.com/index.shtml> Milton On Jan 7, 2006, at 2:57 PM, net kat wrote: > I'm using Text Edit to put web pages with CSS together..I have the > prefs set to save pages as plaintext, but when I save, these text > files have a Safari icon, and when I re-open them in Text Edit, > rather than seeing my toiled-over code, I see it as though looking > in a browser! > > Any clues what I need to do to keep my code files AS code? > > thank you! > > nk