From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

The rCLPage SourcerCY function shows you the original source of the web page as retrieved from the request URL. But pages often have much more dynamic structure than that, with changes made dynamically via JavaScript.

You can see source versions of these changes by selecting part of a page,
and then choosing rCLView Selection SourcerCY in the context menu. This will show you an HTML equivalent of the selected part of the page.

Notice I say rCLpartrCY, rather than rCLpart or allrCY. You can try selecting the
entire page, but this may not work if it has too much data to display. It seems to try to cram the entire selection source into a rCLdata:rCY URL in the address bar, and of course there is a limit to how long a URL can be.

Of course there is the Inspector pane in the Web Developer Tools, which
gives you a structured view of the current state of the document. But View Selection Source can still be useful for directly showing some information that may be harder to discern from the Inspector view.
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From Newsgroup: alt.comp.software.firefox

Lawrence,

The "Page Source" function shows you the original source of the web
page as retrieved from the request URL.

Unfiltered by any add-ons that might be installed (like greasemonkey). Sometimes good, sometimes less so.

Of course there is the Inspector pane in the Web Developer Tools,
which gives you a structured view of the current state of the document.

In which you can select the item of interest with the mouse. Very handy.
Just move the mouse over the webpage and see selection in the inspector
window change.

But View Selection Source can still be useful for directly showing some information that may be harder to discern from the Inspector view.

I did not remember it being available - until I tried to select something (first using the mouse, than the keyboard) and got *much* more than what I could see I selected. No wonder I had forgotten all about it. :-(

Strange though: when I select "copy" (of just text) I get what I selected. When I use "view selection source" I can see a quite a bit more text.

Regards,
Rudy Wieser


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