Can't view source

[JWJ]

For some reason I can't view html source in IE6. It works fine on the PC in my office, but not on my home machine. I am not aware of anything I have done differently from one to the other, but clearly there must be a setting wrong somewhere. Any suggestions as to what it might be would be most welcome.
Thanks

[webado]

For some reason I can't view html source in IE6. It works fine on the PC in my office, but not on my home machine. I am not aware of anything I have done differently from one to the other, but clearly there must be a setting wrong somewhere. Any suggestions as to what it might be would be most welcome.
Thanks

Oh, I had the same problem a little while ago. It's a registry key that's not set any more. What exactly caused it, I don't know. I had a couple of Trojans around that time, that didn't seem to have had the chance to do any harm, but I'll never really know.

I'll try to find the fix and post it here.

[webado]

I googled that again and I got a few sites dealing with this. It seems it may also be cause by the cache gtting too large. Whatevre.

Here's on site's set of tips: http://www.winguides.com/registry/display.php/1246/

For me, it was those registry entries that were missing.

[JWJ]

Thanks Chris ... I'll check it out :D

[webado]

Another way to view source:

Use this construct in the address bar: view-source:http://www.somedomain.com/somepage.html

[JWJ]

Sorted!!!

It was the Temporary Files cache being full. Since the cache continually wraps around I'd never considered it could become full as such.

Mind you, viewing the source doesn't help me understand it, but it's a step nearer :lol:

Thanks for your help. :D

[China Tea]

Hello,

Please let me learn from this thread . . .

When John says

I can't view html source in IE6. ---

what does he mean? I am sorry to ask a question that everybody seems to know the answer to, but I am resigned a long time time ago to the reality that I am an exception...

Thank you!

China Tea

[webado]

Look at the top of you Internet Exploerer window,in the menu. You have View. Options under View are Source which effectively shows the HTML source code of the web page you're looking at.

That's how web pages are built. When you use a WYSIWYG editor or a website builder tool, this is the actual code that is behind whatever the page is displayed as. All the code there tells the browsers what to do and how to render it.

[trackerm]

Hi China Tea,

The best bit about viewing the source of a website is that if you see something nice on, say, Christina's website, you can cut and paste it into your own website!

I normally try to cut out any references to her... but sometimes I'm just too lazy...

;)

[webado]

Hi China Tea,

The best bit about viewing the source of a website is that if you see something nice on, say, Christina's website, you can cut and paste it into your own website!

I normally try to cut out any references to her... but sometimes I'm just too lazy...

;)
LOL!

[trackerm]

But seriously, China tea :)

I do have a look at how people do things. If you see a site thats great have a look at the way they have done it.
Also if you have a problem try to find a website that does what you want to do, then see how they did it.

All the best! :)


Mark
PS Christina, I put your website back ;)

[webado]

Back or backwards?

[China Tea]

Trackerm,

I followed your advice. . . Went to your site . . . copied everything nice and pasted them on my offline diary for my private viewing. :wink:

Chris,

Thanks for the translation. . . Please adopt me and my 3 cats. (I am too old for adoption though) Wuv you.

I had the same problem with John. The view source is not functioning at all. I went to the site you recommended and tried deleting my temp files, but I cancelled the task because I was not sure I was doing the right thing. There are other possible causes which I still have to read on.

Thanks though for another lesson learned. I never knew what the "source" was until this thread. . . Am I not so unique? (in my ignorance?) Shame on me! :oops:

China Tea

[webado]

China Tea, 3 cats???? That's a lot of cat litter to change! I only have one and he's plenty messy LOL!

To re-enable your source viewing, got through Tools > Internet Options> Delete Files > Delete all offline content > OK . This will be a first step which may help, usually it does in most cases.

Close the IE window and open it again. Hopefully you can now view sources. If not, I'm afraid you'll need the more advanced methods, and best to do it with somebody who can hold your hand through it, since it take some guts.

Another way to see the source code is to right click anywehre in the window and select View Source. This is especially good for framed pages. You'll know if a page is in a frameset or not by the View > Source from the top of the screen which will indicate that quite clearly.

[China Tea]

Hi Chris,

My view source now works. Both from the menu bar and by right clicking on the page.

Thanks for the another lesson learned Chris!

China Tea

[webado]

Great news! Now you'll see that every time you go to a web site, you'll be dying of curiosity to see the source code behind :lol:

[China Tea]

Yeah, why should anyone want to be able to view the source? What good will it give someone to know about a site's source code? Please educate me further.

Thanks.

ChinaTea

[JWJ]

Hey CT,
Yeah, why should anyone want to be able to view the source? What good will it give someone to know about a site's source code? Please educate me further.
Because that's the way these clever folk create their web pages ... it's only you and me that haven't got a clue what the heck they're talking about. :wink: It's like one artist asking another what type of brush he used, or one musician asking another about the technicalities of a musical arrangement. Sadly, you need to know html to read and understand html, but you and I can still pinch some of their little secrets if we pay attention, right? :wink:

[China Tea]

I see . . . :idea: (Do I really?)

Well, at least, I learned a couple of things:

1. I can add source code to my sparse Weblish vocabulary; and

2. I can now view other sites's source code and be in the loop.

Thanks, John.

China Tea