How to view "generated HTML code" in Firefox?

nonopolarity picture nonopolarity · Jul 23, 2010 · Viewed 37.7k times · Source

If using Firebug, we can click on the HTML tab, and click to expand each element to see the generated HTML code. Is there a way to expand it all or get a plain text file?

I just accidentally found out that there doesn't even need to be Firebug. We can just press CTRL-A (to select all) on the webpage, and then right click and choose "View Selection Source", then we will get a plain text file of the "current HTML code", even will see a <div> that is the Firebug panel that is before the <body> tag if Firebug is open. But it seems like a weird way to invoke this. Is there any other way?

(Update: generated HTML usually refers to the HTML after JavaScript changes the DOM. It is the current DOM tree instead of the original source code)

Answer

user123444555621 picture user123444555621 · Jul 24, 2010

In Firebug's HTML tab, right-click the root node and select "copy HTML". Then paste to a text editor.

Without Firefox Add-Ons, you could use a bookmarklet like this:

javascript: var win = window.open(); win.document.write('<html><head><title>Generated HTML of  ' + location.href + '</title></head><pre>' + document.documentElement.innerHTML.replace(/&/g, '&amp;').replace(/</g, '&lt;') + '</pre></html>'); win.document.close(); void 0;