What is the difference between "Web page font" and "Plain text font"?

The browser can display text files(.txt) or .html files.

http://home.cox.rr.com/atco/plaintext.txt

 

A text file is just that, plain text. All text files end in .txt. The example above is just a Notepad file that I uploaded to a web server I use. Plain text files cannot contain special formatting or links or images. Special formatting in plain text files is limited to cap letters and paragraphs. NO use of bold text, italics, line breaks etc etc.

HTML files are Hyper Text Markup Language files. HTML files are text files of specialized code such as html, java script, java etc etc. HTML allows "hyper linking" elements on the same page or other pages. The file ends in .html.

The browser address bar will display the path to the file shown in the browser. When viewing a text file the address bar will show www.domain.com/filename.txt

When viewing an html file in the browser the path will be www.domain.com/pagename.html

The address bar may not always display teh filename or page being displayed because there are methods of linking files and pages so as to retain only the domain name in the address bar. You can alway rt click in the browser window and then click "Properties" to see the full path and file being displayed.

Some html pages, such as this page here, make use of scripting languages. In this case, the language is PHP, which can be displayed in a web browser. These pages are stored in a database and the PHP code is used to access, modifyand track the changes made to the pages, something that the limited html language is not capabe of doing.


note: there are filetypes other than Plain Text, such as RTF, Rich Text Formatting. RTF's can contain hyperlinks, special formatting and images. These files are not displayed in a browser, but in a word processor such as MS Word. An example would be "myfile.rtf ".

 

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