The code will come up in notepad or something similar. This type of program is very basic so you won't be able to do very much with it. You will be able to find what you are looking for though. Notepad does have a "search feature. Just click on "Edit" at the top of the page and then click on "Find" or "Find in This Page". A box will pop up where you can type in a word or group of words that you are looking for. Then click "Find" and you will be brought right too it.
You may want to save this page so you can look at it later. Maybe you want to research it more or maybe you want to change it so you can use it for your own page later. To save this as a file that you can open later click on "File" then on "Save Page As". Choose where you want to save it too, give it a name and a file extension (.htm or .html) and click "Save".
If you don't want to save the whole file but want to save a part of it you can open your text editor, copy the part you want to save and paste it onto a blank text page. Then save it so you can find it later and work on it when you are ready.
When you are ready to work on it you can use a text editor or you can use a Web page editor. Whether you use an HTML editor or a WYSIWYG editor is up to you. Using a more advanced editor you will be able to find things quicker and change things easier.
Once you find the specific code you are looking for you can start trying to figure it out by changing things around and seeing how they look in your browser. Some editors have a feature where you can see what your code will look like in the browser as you work on it. If your program doesn't have this feature just open your browser and put the path to your file in the address bar. It looks something like this:
c:\folder\filename.html
Made sure you use the backslash and not the forwardslash like you would with an online page. This won't work.
I suggest keeping a backup copy of your file just in case you mess it up really bad and can't figure out what you did and can't fix it. Just open your file in your editor and then click on "File" and then "Save As" and give it a new name. Work with one file and use the other as your backup. If you make changes you like you can either save it over your backup essentially creating a new backup or you can save it with another new name and have two backups that are at different stages.
Make changes to your code. Play with the colors and layout. See what it looks like in your browser each time you save it. If you don't like what you did click on "Edit" and then "Undo" to change it back. Have fun with it and use this as a learning experience. Don't worry that you will mess it up because you remembered to save a backup. Mess around with everything. That's how you are going to find out how things work. You aren't going to learn anything by playing it safe and not trying something out. Give it a try and learn something new.
