What is "View Page Source" and "Inspect"?

macfais · Nov 11, 2017

I have this question since long time. In any web pages, if you are going right-click, the two bottom options are "view page source" and "inspect". For anyone who do not have an idea about programming, clicking those is a bad idea as it will direct you to a bunch of codes. Could any give us an idea about what are those or what are their purpose or use? I attached one screen shot for a better picture of my question.

Localnode · Nov 13, 2017

View page source will view the whole source of the page.
Inspect works in a similar way, with the exception that it highlights the element source.
Example: inspecting the "reply with quote" button on this page:

Viewing the page source:

&

.

The same page source with the "reply with quote" code section:

.

24x7serverman · Nov 14, 2017

Inspect element is the live code editing feature in Google chrome. You can edit the CSS rules applied to various elements on the pages. You can edit Styles, DOM objects, Event Listeners, Properties using it. This is authenticated way to perform the inspect element operation.

View source displays the source code of the page. It sends request for the file, which is not authenticated and which returns the source code of the file. Some of the web-developer disable this feature.

Fusion Arc Hosting · Dec 21, 2017

Hi,

View Page Source allows you to see the websites html code and the inspect element allow you to change the html and css and also allows you to see the network information for a website for example what files the device you are on needs to download to be able to show the website.

Note that what you change in inspect mode it will not stay the way when you reload the website.

martin smith · Jan 4, 2018

View Page Source allows you to see the HTML code and Inspect element allows you to edit the code ..

superman2727 · Apr 29, 2018

View page source is somehow showing the HTML as it was already delivered from the server to our web browser. Then Inspect Element is a place where you can see the errors about HTML and it helps you to correct some errors about the page.

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