Suddenly You Can't View Source in IE?

Snib · December 13th, 2004, 10:05 PM

My first suggestion is to get Firefox, which has a built-in source viewer instead of using an external application.

Anyways..

1) if you have a shortcut to Notepad anywhere (not just on your desktop) delete it
2) empty your cache (Tools->Internet Options->General->Delete Files)

If these do not work, I found a lot of other opinions when I went to:
http://www.google.com/search?q=ie+cant+view+source

good luck ;)

-Snib - http://www.snibworks.com
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Groundhog1248 · January 6th, 2005, 10:57 AM

I'm hoping this ins't to far off the subject. When I try to view source in Firefox 1.0 from my web site I only get this info:
<html>
<head>
<title>title</title>

</head>
<frameset rows="100%,*" border="0">
<frame src="http://xx.xx.xx.102:999" frameborder="0">
<frame frameborder="0" noresize>
</frameset>
</html>

but if I view source in IE 6 I see all the source code? I cleared the Firefox cache. Also it says frameset but I'm only using xhtml and css .
Any thoughts?

Thanks

richard.york · January 6th, 2005, 10:58 AM

Right click, select something along the lines of "This Frame" and then "View Frame Source".

Regards,
Rich

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Groundhog1248 · January 6th, 2005, 11:13 AM

Thanks, that was to easy.

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by richard.york
Right click, select something along the lines of "This Frame" and then "View Frame Source".

Regards,
Rich

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kaos_frack · January 3rd, 2007, 02:23 PM

if you cannot view source try entering this in the address bar:

Code:

javascript:alert(document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].outerHTML);

bob lawblaw · September 21st, 2014, 05:17 PM

Just a suggestion for anyone who follows the ideas here and still can't view the source of a webpage, you could always try to enter the URL in an app that can grab and display the source code for you, like http://appincredible.com/online/view-source/