Programmatically open "View Source" HTML Window in Browser with Javascript?

javascript view-source
Lance Pollard picture Lance Pollard · Nov 29, 2009 · Viewed 30.5k times · Source

How do I programmatically open the "View Source" window (using some Javascript) like when I right click in the browser and click "View Source"? Is this possible?

Answer

richardtallent picture richardtallent · Nov 29, 2009

You can use the "view-source" URI schema, supported by Firefox, Chrome, and older versions of IE.

No JavaScript required, just a normal link to the page you want the user to see in source view:

<a target="_blank" href="view-source:http://www.wikipedia.org/">view Wikipedia's home page HTML source</a>

More info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/View-source

Related questions

How can I remove a specific item from an array?

I have an array of numbers and I'm using the .push() method to add elements to it. Is there a simple way to remove a specific element from an array? I'm looking for the equivalent of something like: array.remove(…

Read More
How do I redirect to another webpage?

How can I redirect the user from one page to another using jQuery or pure JavaScript?

Read More
How to check whether a string contains a substring in JavaScript?

Usually I would expect a String.contains() method, but there doesn't seem to be one. What is a reasonable way to check for this?

Read More