Saturday, May 31, 2008

Firefox's Handy 'View Selection Source' Tool

For the past week or so I've been redoing all of the webpages on Signtech-RTA.com- making use of server side includes (SSI) for the header, menu and footer portions of each page.

If you've ever gone through the process of creating a webpage, you'll know what I'm referring to here:
Occasionally a stray > bracket or other character will appear in an odd place on a page. It usually happens when you've been doing a lot of copying and pasting and weren't being real careful. You know what caused it but finding that pesky character in the code to correct it can be a problem.

Well I stumbled on a handy little feature in Firefox for locating the source of these stray characters. Simply highlight it and right click on it and select "View Selection Source". It will bring up a small window with a snippet of your html code for just that portion of the page with the character selected.



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