How do you make SimpleText open HTML Documents?

Or turn HTML Documents into SimpleText.

[Jesse_Smith]

I downloaded a zip file and when you unzip it, .html files turn into HTML documents and can't be open by SimpleText unless you change it to .txt.

Name it .txt and it opens. Change it back to .html or .shtml and it doesn't, but gives out this message...

:::SimpleText cannot display this kind of document.

How do you make it so SimpleText can open HTML Documents? Or how do you turn it into a SimpleText text document so you can open it and have the file name be .shtml? Where do you change the extension settings so .html files start out as SimpleText text documents?

OS X

[brdwlsh]

you want the .html document to appear in SimpleText like it would in a browser?
i use TextEdit and can do this--however, the information in my style sheets is not recognized. the file has a .html extension.

-or-

do you want to open the .html file and have the source code visible?
in TextEdit, open the preferences panel and find 'rich text formatting', set to 'ignore in HTML files'. the file still has a .html extension.

[jamesa]

Click once on the icon to hightlight it. Do a Get Info (Cmd-I). In the Get Info window there a section that says "Open with." Select the application you want to open that file with. If you want documents of that type to open with the app you chose, click the "Change All' button.