HTML files

.html and .htm files in a tracked folder are listed next to your Markdown and open inside the app, shown the way a browser would show them. They are always read-only.

How to reach it

Open a tracked folder in the sidebar and click an HTML file's row, the same as any other file.

Viewing

The file opens exactly as it is on disk, with its own styling and its own scripts, on a white page whatever the app's theme. Charts, tabs and other interactive parts built into the file work. Context Raven never writes to it: there is no editor, no Save and no Save As for it. To show it, the app adds one invisible tag in memory, before the page starts, so that links to places inside the file work — without it, such a link would load the app itself in place of the file. A file that sets its own base address is shown without it.

The file runs in an isolated frame. A script inside it cannot read the rest of the app, reach your other files, open a new window or navigate the app away. It can load scripts, images and fonts from the internet; it cannot embed another web page or replace itself with one.

If another program, a script, or an AI agent rewrites the file while you are viewing it, the app shows the new version.

An HTML file runs only when you click it. When the app starts, it reopens the last Markdown file you had open — never an HTML file, even if that was the very last thing you had open, and even without a flash of the empty state first. Adding a folder never opens an HTML file in it either.

The top bar keeps Copy content, Download, Copy file path, Move to Trash and the breadcrumb. There is no search button, no reading/editing toggle and no version rail.

In the sidebar

HTML files appear in the tree and in the "Last changed" list. Search finds them by file name only — the text inside an HTML file is not searched, because its tags and attribute names would match almost anything.

Limits

• A file that loads anything from next to itself — a stylesheet, a script, an image or data in a relative path such as ./data.json — shows without it. Only self-contained files render completely.
• Links that lead out of the file — to a website or another file — do not open. Links to a place within the same file work.
• No find in document (⌘F) inside an HTML file.
• No renaming, and no Share to cloud. Move to Trash, Reveal in Finder and Copy File Path still work.
• No version history or View last changes for HTML files.
• Extensions match regardless of case: .HTML, .HTM and mixed-case spellings are listed too.
• A script in the file that never finishes freezes the app window until you quit it. The app does not reopen that file on the next start.