How to view the source code of a website?
Let’s take a moment to view the inner workings of a Web site. Following this method will allow you to read the HTML source of a page. Then, the next time you see something you like on a Web page, you can look at the HTML source and learn how to do the same thing on your own page. Don’t worry, this isn’t too hard to do.
First of all, open the browser of your choice. I recommend Mozilla Firefox (you can download it at www.mozilla.org), but you’re probably using Internet Explorer. The following are instructions for viewing the source in Internet Explorer. First of all, open up the browser. If you have Windows XP, the easiest way to open it is from the Start menu.
From there, go to a Web site that you enjoy. Click on the View menu at the top and then select Source.
That’s a lot of words, huh? Look closely. . So that’s how you look at the source of a page.Try it out on a few other Web sites. It should work for all of them.
Now that you know what source is, let’s find out what it means. HTML is a language that’s used to describe what will be displayed onscreen. The HTML itself isn’t actually shown onscreen, but talks to the computer behind the scenes.The computer changes the HTML into human language and images, and displays it on the screen.
In these cases, the Web browser does all the work. Internet Explorer and Firefox are the two most common browsers, and their job is to read the HTML from Web sites, interpret it, and post the results onscreen. When you select View > Source, you’re seeing the actual HTML code before it’s interpreted by the Web browser. Okay, so now you have a little insight into what HTML is and how a Web browser reads it.