Open HTML files in your browser
The language of every web page, also the format of saved pages, email receipts and exported reports. Open one right here as it looks, with nothing in it running. Nothing leaves your device.
Or drop it anywhere on this page
What you'll see
Your page opens as it looks, with no script running and nothing loaded from the web.
- The page as it looks • Scripts and trackers off
- Page, Tree or Text
- Search the tree • Every match counted
- Copy path • XPath or CSS selector
About HTML
Tim Berners-Lee wrote HTML in 1991 for the first web pages, and the WHATWG keeps it up as a living standard. Tags such as <p>, <a> and <img> mark up the text, styles in CSS set how it looks, and scripts in JavaScript make it move.
An HTML file you get or save can do more than look: its scripts run when it opens, and its pictures, fonts and styles can load from anywhere, which tells their servers that the file was opened, and when. Receipts, newsletters and reports sent as HTML often carry such trackers.
Filepeek draws the page in a frame with scripts off, under a rule that lets nothing load from the web, so pictures inside the file show and remote ones stay blank. A link opens in a new tab only once you've seen where it goes. Tree shows the tags, with Copy path giving an XPath or CSS selector, and Text shows the source.
HyperText Markup Language
.html • .htm • .xhtml • .shtml
Format
- MIME type
- text/html
- Made by
- Tim Berners-Lee, now the WHATWG
- Released
- 1993
Inside the file
- Markup
- Tags, attributes and text
- Looks
- CSS styles
- Scripts
- JavaScript, off in Filepeek
- Encoding
- UTF-8 or one it names
Opens in every browser
Every browser opens an HTML file as a page, and runs its scripts and loads its trackers. Filepeek shows it without either, in Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari.
- YouChromeRuns it as a web page
- YouEdgeRuns it as a web page
- YouFirefoxRuns it as a web page
- YouSafariRuns it as a web page
Questions
How do I open an HTML file safely?
Drop it on this page or choose Peek an HTML. The page is drawn with no script running and nothing loaded from the web, so it can do nothing but show itself.
Why are some pictures blank?
They load from the web, which would tell their servers that you opened the file. Pictures kept inside the file show.
Can I see the source?
Yes. Choose Text above the page for the source with line numbers, or Tree for its tags to fold and search.
Do links work?
Yes. Filepeek shows you where a link goes, then opens it in a new tab, and the page you're on stays as it is.
Is my file uploaded?
No. The file opens inside your browser and never leaves your device.