Simple Question: Can I View HTML Tags?
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Surprisingly, it appears difficult to find an answer to this from Googling. I want to migrate articles from a website to Blogger. I’m using Reader View in Firefox which strips a lot of the superfluous stuff on the source website and then I paste to Notepad. From there I copy and paste to Blogger. Now this strips all HTML tags and when I post from Notepad to Blogger, all the content is enclosed by a single <p> tag and multiple <br /> tags within the text. I can’t paste directly from the source website to Blogger because it brings in a lot of unwanted HTML stuff from the previous website. This causes multiple problems that I won’t detail here, mostly as regards inserting images into the text. So my question is, does Notepad++ strip all HTML (I can’t find any way of changing to HTML view mode like I can in the Blogger Designer) and if so, is there a way I could retain at least <p> and <br /> tags?
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@Eugene-Brennan said in Simple Question: Can I View HTML Tags?:
Surprisingly, it appears difficult to find an answer to this from Googling. I want to migrate articles from a website to Blogger. I’m using Reader View in Firefox which strips a lot of the superfluous stuff on the source website and then I paste to Notepad. From there I copy and paste to Blogger. Now this strips all HTML tags and when I post from Notepad to Blogger, all the content is enclosed by a single <p> tag and multiple <br /> tags within the text. I can’t paste directly from the source website to Blogger because it brings in a lot of unwanted HTML stuff from the previous website. This causes multiple problems that I won’t detail here, mostly as regards inserting images into the text. So my question is, does Notepad++ strip all HTML (I can’t find any way of changing to HTML view mode like I can in the Blogger Designer) and if so, is there a way I could retain at least <p> and <br /> tags?
Try selecting and copying what you want from reader view, then use Edit | Paste Special | Paste HTML Content in Notepad++. It will still require some cleanup, but it will probably come closer to what you want.
There is no native HTML view in Notepad++. There is a plugin, but it just shows the HTML as a sidebar; you can’t edit within the formatted text. Personally, I find it easier and more reliable to view the file in Firefox to see how the HTML renders. (I set F5 as a shortcut for View | View Current File in | Firefox.)
