My webpages show the code, not the page.

Why is my uploaded html document showing as code instead of as a webpage? I put it in the public_html folder (directory). Here is one I uploaded instead of entering directly into a template online. http://www.luxe-bux.com/test.html

If you view the source, it has all the necessary stuff added. The extra stuff seems to have been added by openoffice or by the file manager that uploaded the file. If I add the extra stuff to my document and re-upload it will it work? It seems like a different problem.

The first page on the site doesn't show the code, but that is because I edited it within the existing index.html document that the website host provided for me. I need to be able to upload pages.

HTML Code:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <TITLE></TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)"> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="0;0"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="0;0"> <STYLE TYPE="text/css">  </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="en-US" DIR="LTR"> <PRE CLASS="western"><html><head></head><body onload="document.notarealform.textfield.focus()"> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <table><tr><td bgcolor="f0faf5" id="show"></td></tr></table> <p><br /><br />Enter some text.<p /> <p><i id='explanation'>Your entry: </i><b id='entereditem'>none</b></p> <form method="post" name="notarealform"> <input type='text' name="textfield" id='item' onkeyup='youentered()' />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<input type='button' onclick='itemresults()' value='Look It Up'/></form> </body></html></PRE> </BODY> </HTML>

You're trying to publish an office document. As you can see above, all of your code is inside <pre> tags, so it's just displayed literally. You need to type all that code into a plain text editor (gedit, for example) and save the file that way.

I just made a new notepad document with the same text. I uploaded it and it works for me here: http://www.luxe-bux.com/newtest.txt but it has a .txt extension, and doesn't it need a .html extension instead? I don't think webpages have .txt extensions, so I don't know why that is working.

I converted that new .txt document to an .html document through an online converter. Then I uploaded it. This one is showing .html instead of .txt, which I think is good. But it just displays the code not the webpage. http://www.luxe-bux.com/newtestb.html

Sorry, I am a newbie, but isn't notepad supposed to work to get an .html document online?

I'm sorry, my post above was misleading. I was showing you the actual code from your page (not what you want!). To get what you want, you need to leave out everything outside of, and including, the <pre> tags, like so:

HTML Code:

<html><head></head><body onload="document.notarealform.textfield.focus()"> <script type="text/javascript">  </script> <table><tr><td bgcolor="f0faf5" id="show"></td></tr></table> <p><br /><br />Enter some text.<p /> <p><i id='explanation'>Your entry: </i><b id='entereditem'>none</b></p> <form method="post" name="notarealform"> <input type='text' name="textfield" id='item' onkeyup='youentered()' />       <input type='button' onclick='itemresults()' value='Look It Up'/></form> </body></html>

As far as saving the file with the proper extension, just enter the extension manually when saving the file: "file.html" instead of "file"

Is there an online tutorial specifically for uploading files that is really thorough and includes troubleshooting? And hopefully free? I've looked around and all I am finding is simple instructions that aren't working. Ideally I want to learn just enough css to be able to create my own stylesheet. I went over the w3 schools tutorial and it didn't seem much harder than html. I want to link a stylesheet to my pages. And I want to do it with notepad or wordpad. But I tried what you said, and even that is not working. Changing the file name without converting it to .html just made it a .txt document online with an extra .html (www.luxe-bux.com/newtest.html.txt) in the name of the file. Any guidance would be appreciated!