Have you ever wondered how to view the page source of a particular web page using Internet Explorer running the Microsoft Windows operating system? Even though Internet Explorer is not the most popular of internet web browsers, Internet Explorer is still widely used across the spectrum of internet web browsing users. From large corporations to individual users, Internet Explorer is as much sought after as some of the other internet web browsers such as Mozilla Firefox, Netscape Navigator, Google Chrome, America Online (AOL), Apple Safari, Opera Software Opera just to name a few. Viewing the page source using Internet Explorer or any internet web browser is a convenient way of understanding how a particular internet web page is set up and developed by the coders, scriptwriters, designers, and developers of the website. In this tutorial we will show you just how easy it is to view the page source code and scripts of a particular internet web page using the internet web browser Internet Explorer.
Step 1. Launch Internet Explorer as a internet web browser.
Step 2. Browse to a website.
Step 3. Find a particular page of the website.
Step 4. Locate the menu bar in Internet Explorer (File, Edit, View, Favorites, Tools, Help).
Step 5. Locate the “View” option in the menu bar.
Step 6. Left click once on “View.”
Step 7. Left click once on “Source.”
That is it! A new window will open with the source code and scripts of the web page from the web site that you browsed to. The url to the particular web page that you are viewing the source coding is displayed in the blue bar on the uppermost part of the page source window with a “- Original Source” tag line at the end of the url.
Discussion Topic: How to View Page Source using Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows
