Thursday, 22 October 2009

Safari Tip For Beginners: Enable & Access Web Markup

I love to look at code and learn about what makes the webpages I visit regularly tick. It's fun to mess up pages and put them back together to see what happens. If your the same, I've got a tip for ya today that will help you do that in Safari.

First, we should say that, you can view that HTML code without any tweaking. The way to do this is to go to "View" in the menu bar and then choosing the "View Source" item. When you do that, you will presented with the HTML code for whatever page are viewing at the time. Here's an example:


You are now seeing the code that generates any given page. It may look a little scary when you see it for the first time but really it's not crazily complex.

Congratulations, you're done. Your now viewing simple web markup. Give yourself a pat on the back and go get something sweet to eat.