Saving Files

You can save Composer documents in HTML or text-only format. Saving a document in HTML format preserves the document's formatting, such as text styles (for example, bold or italic), tables, links, and images. Saving a document in text-only format removes all the HTML tags but preserves the document's text.

To save a document as an HTML file:

1. Open the "File" menu and choose "Save" or click the "Save" button on the Composition toolbar. Alternately, you may choose "Save As" to change the file name or location if it has previously been saved.
2. If you haven't already given your page a title, Composer prompts you to do so. Composer displays the page title in the browser window's title bar when you view the page in the browser. The document's page title also appears in your list of bookmarks if you bookmark the page.
3. Composer then prompts you to enter a filename and specify a location to save the file. Make sure you preserve the .html extension in the filename.

When you save a page in Composer, all parts of the page (the HTML, images and other files, such as sound files and style sheets), are saved locally on your hard drive. If you care to save only the HTML part of the page, you must change the Composer preference for saving pages.

If an image location is absolute (starts with http://) and you are connected to the Internet, you will still see that image in the document in Composer and Navigator. However, if the image location is relative to the page location (starts with file:///), then you won't see the image in the local version of the document.

To save a document as a text-only file:

1. Open the "File" menu and choose "Export to Text."
2. Enter the filename and specify the location where you wish to save the file.

Note: Saving a file in text-only format will erase all formating data, tables, images and HTML code from the document!