kate editor - how to get document preview working?

i installed the document preview plugin for kate and it doesn’t seem to be able to recognise any of the files i’m working on despite the fact they’re html files. i can’t find any documentation about this online, sadly… is there a package or something i’m not getting? anyone use kate on linux and would be able to advise?

EDIT: another forum recommended i try another method for live previews and i’m definitely doing that instead, but i’m still eager to solve the mystery here. apparently it doesn’t support HTML by default, which i didn’t know, and you’d need something called KParts to fix this. but information on that is pretty scarce too… and i’m not tech-literate enough in this direction to parse much of it!

If you know where your website’s files live on your computer you can open them in your browser using a file:// address.

For example, I preview my site by opening file:///home/starbreaker/projects/starbreaker.org/website/index.html.

This should work in any browser.

You should also be able to right-click a HTML file in Dolphin (the current KDE file manager?) and have it open in your browser.