Comments on: IE Tip: Cheeky way to see the current state of the page

By: B@rney

B@rney — Fri, 15 Sep 2006 13:15:49 +0000

Great tip. I vote for the last comment by James. At least that works best for me in IE…

By: Search Engine Marketing Blog » See the current html state of page in IE

Search Engine Marketing Blog » See the current html state of page in IE — Sat, 25 Feb 2006 14:40:12 +0000

[...] Found a interesting little post on Ajaxian, often in the SEO bussiness you want to fund the source code as fully rendered by the browsers. This is an easy method to do so, place this code in your address bar when viewing the page. javascript:’’+window.document.body.outerHTML+’’; [...]

By: Mojoe

Mojoe — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 15:10:14 +0000

Instead I just wiggle my fingers and websites do what I need them to do

By: Arve Bersvendsen

Arve Bersvendsen — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:59:28 +0000

Instead of using document.body.outerHTML, I would recommend using document.documentElement.outerHTML : That way, you will also get the root node of the document you’re checking.

By: c@M

c@M — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:40:44 +0000

Sorry about the double post… forgot to escape the < and > when I posted. Duh… live preview further down on the page. Let me strap my helmet back on….

javascript:if (window.document.body.outerHTML != undefined){‘

’+window.document.body.outerHTML+’’} else if (document.getElementsByTagName(“html”)[0].innerHTML != undefined){‘’+document.getElementsByTagName(“html”)[0].innerHTML+’’} else if (window.document.documentElement.outerHTML != undefined){‘’+window.document.documentElement.outerHTML+’’} else { alert(‘Your browser does not support this functionality’) };

By: c@M

c@M — Fri, 24 Feb 2006 00:37:55 +0000

And just for giggles, here's all three rolled into one! javascript:if (window.document.body.outerHTML != undefined){''+window.document.body.outerHTML+''} else if (document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML != undefined){''+document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML+''} else if (window.document.documentElement.outerHTML != undefined){''+window.document.documentElement.outerHTML+''} else { alert('Your browser does not support this method of viewing the page source.') };

By: llook

llook — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:57:09 +0000

I mean javascript:''+document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML+'';

By: llook

llook — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:54:33 +0000

It works in IE and Opera. The same bookmarklet for Firefox&co is here: javascript:''+document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].innerHTML+'';

By: Jc

Jc — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 21:02:57 +0000

So simple yet so cool. Dunno why I never thought of this…

Thanks for the great tip!

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:32:41 +0000

OK, hopefully the last time (HTML and quotes were being converted):

javascript:void(window.open("javascript:'

' + opener.window.document.documentElement.outerHTML + ''"));

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:24:29 +0000

Oops, the previous comment should say:

javascript:void(window.open(“javascript:” + opener.window.document.documentElement.outerHTML + ””));

By: James

James — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 19:19:35 +0000

Or, push it to a new popup window so you don’t lose the page:

javascript:window.open(“javascript:” +opener.window.document.documentElement.outerHTML +””);

By: michael

michael — Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:46:17 +0000

or for IE:

javascript:'

'<br />
+window.document.documentElement.outerHTML<br />
+'';