
Under Settings on the menu bar, choose Style Configurator.
You may want to set up HTML (or your language of choice) as the Default Language option immediately below this section before closing the window.
In the New Document/Default Directory tab choose the UTF-8 without BOM option in the Encoding sub-section. Under Settings on the menu bar, choose Preferences. (for this example I'm using version 5.8.7): Do so, and then make the following changes. At the end of the process, Notepad++ will give you the option of running the program. Being an open source product, setting up the program is slightly quirky.įirst, download and install the program as normal, if necessary – there's no need to change any of the installation options. Notepad++ is a free, open source, and well-regarded alternative text editor: you might think of it as "Notepad on steroids".