A Reference on Different Ways to Save Web Pages
Using Internet Explorer, PC:

Once you have opened a web page in Internet Explorer, there are three basic ways to save the page and its related files:
  1. You can View the page’s source code in Notepad and then save it.
  2. You can use "File - Save As" to save the page as an html file. You have the option of saving the additional files associated with it (usually image files).
  3. You can use "File - Save As" to save just the visible text.

A. You can View the page’s source code in Notepad and then save it.

  1. There are three ways to view a page's source code in Notepad:
    1. Right click in the browser window itself, in an empty area, then select View Source from the shortcut menu that appears.
    2. In the browser's menu, select View > Source
    3. In the browser's menu, select File > Edit With Windows Notepad.
  2. Once the source code is opened in Notepad, in the Notepad menu, select: File > Save As… (note: Saving with just plain old "Save" won’t work initially).
  3. In the dialog box that opens be sure to add the file extension: .html; don’t use the default extension .txt
  4. However, do save the file in the default text format, just don't use the .txt extension.

B. You can use "File - Save As" to save the page as an html file.

  1. In the browser, select: File > Save As…
  2. Then you have the following options:
    1. Web Page Complete (*.htm, *.html) – this will save the html code as an html file AND also save the image files that go with it, placing them in a new folder with the same name as the file name you give the html file (which by default is the page name).
    2. Web Page, HTML only (*.htm, *.html) – this will save only the html code as an html file. This does pretty much the same thing as option "A" above.

C. You can also use the browser’s "Save As" function to save just the text on the page itself.

This will NOT save the html code, only the words that appear in the browser window. Note, too, that sometimes the text that you see is actually an image file. In that case, that text will not be saved because it really isn't text.

  1. In the browser, select: File > Save As…
  2. Select the option: Text file (*.txt)

© 2004 Dan Vaughan