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View Source has a kink vs Save Page As

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It seems when I do a view source, the source shown is what would be the source if I had pressed the F5 (refresh) key. When I use File - Save Page As - I get the source for the current page as shown. For view source I prefer the latter.

It seems when I do a view source, the source shown is what would be the source if I had pressed the F5 (refresh) key. When I use File - Save Page As - I get the source for the current page as shown. For view source I prefer the latter.

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Col_Boogie said

Better, but does not include header information, etc.

What do you mean by header information? The selection source for a full page selection should include everything from <html> through </html>. The part above the body isn't highlighted in blue since there's no way to physically select it, but it still should be listed.

On a site that doesn't let you use the keyboard shortcut for Select All, you can display the classic menu bar and choose the function from the Edit menu.

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If I understand your question correctly, the workaround for viewing the source as altered by scripts in the page is:

  • select the entire page using, for example, Ctrl+a (the focus needs to be in the page body, so you may need to first click a blank area toward the edge)
  • right-click the page and choose View Selection Source

This is slower than View Source, but should have the extra bits and pieces you're looking for.

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You can also use the left panel in the Inspector (e.g. right-click the body element and use Edit As HTML or use a Copy item).

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Better, but does not include header information, etc. Also, I had to use the mouse to select because I had <body onpresskey='history.go(-1)'> that got invoked on ctrl+a. I could not make second suggestion to work. My save page as workrd for what I was doing.

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Col_Boogie said

Better, but does not include header information, etc.

What do you mean by header information? The selection source for a full page selection should include everything from <html> through </html>. The part above the body isn't highlighted in blue since there's no way to physically select it, but it still should be listed.

On a site that doesn't let you use the keyboard shortcut for Select All, you can display the classic menu bar and choose the function from the Edit menu.