The file manager editors
When you edit a file using cPanel's File Manager, you can make immediate changes to your web site without the need to upload a new version of the file. cPanel has two editors that you can use to edit files directly on the web server:
- A plain text editor for editing text files. This editor is intended for use with plain text files, such as configuration files.
- An HTML Editor that is intended for use with HTML files. This editor provides WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) functionality. It provides many of the features that users of word processing programs are familiar with, such as spell check, formatting toolbars, and so on.
Additionally, if you just want to view a file's contents, you can do so without opening the file in an editor.
How to view a file
You may not always need to edit a file. If you just want to take a quick look at a file's contents, you can view it without opening an editor.
To view a file in File Manager, follow these steps:
- Login to cPanel
- In the FILES section of the cPanel home screen, click File Manager
- In the File Manager main window, select the file that you want to view.
- Click the View icon
The file's contents appear in a new page.
Editing a file using the plain text editor
To edit a file using the plain text editor, follow these steps;
- Login to cPanel
- In the FILES section of the cPanel home screen, click File Manager
- In the File Manager main window, select the file that you want to edit.
- Click the Edit icon
- Select the character set encoding that the file uses. The default is utf-8 (Unicode). (Make sure that you select the correct character encoding for the file. Otherwise, the file may become corrupted.)
- Click Edit. The file's contents appear in a new page, ready for editing.
- To save your changes, click Save Changes. ( If you don’t want to save changes just close page)
- To close the editor, click Close.
Editing a file using HTML editor
To edit a file by using the HTML Editor, follow these steps:
- Login to cpanel
- In the FILES section of the cPanel home screen, click File Manager
- In the File Manager main window, select the file that you want to edit.
- Click the HTML Editor icon
- Select the character set encoding that the file uses. The default is utf-8 (Unicode).
- Click Edit. The file's contents appear in a new page, ready for editing.
- To change the formatting, use the formatting toolbar. For example, you can change the font size and text alignment, add bulleted and numbered lists, and much more.
- To view the web page's HTML source code, click Source
- To preview the web page, click the preview icon
- To save changes, click the save icon
