See the Web page's source code with the Internet browser

You can use your internet browser to view the HTML source code of most web pages. This means that if you see a page you like, you can look at the code below and copy the technical designer. Copying someone else tried and true methods is not plagiarism - it's just a good way to improve your skills.

If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, simply go to a page that you are interested in. Now, at the top of the browser window, you should see a menu bar with a series of commands, similar to the following:

File Edit View Tools Help

Click the View command, and a vertical menu should come down from it, with the number of choices, looking something like:


Toolbars

Status Bar

Explorer Bar

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Stop

Refresh

Text Size

Encoding

Source

Privacy Report

Full Screen



Now, click the Source Control, and a copy of Microsoft Notepad should pop up that contains all the text on the page.

Because Notepad does not have an auto-wrap feature, you can see some very long lines of HTML code. Moreover, according to the Web page you choose to watch, you can see some good clean easy to read HTML code, or you can see a casino.

In any case, it turns out that most of the web pages of two major sections, the head and body. If you locate the body of the page, you will see that most of the HTML tags that beginners are usually interested in, for example, table tags, paragraph tags, tags and text formatting.

However, as you get more advanced you find that web pages are often dependent for their formatting on other pages on external sites called "CSS". If you want to watch one of these pages, you may need to rebuild your web address with information on the main page you are looking for. This will be a topic for another article.

Finally, if you use another browser (Mozilla Firefox for example), the commands to view the page source are slightly different. Click the View menu, then select the source of the page. Firefox displays the page source in a proprietary non-Notepad window.

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