# Viewing HTML source
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-html-source/208744
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [October 21, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-html-source/208744 "2003-10-21T18:07:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@FandJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FandJ)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-html-source/208744/1 "2003-10-21T18:07:56Z")
Howdy, all you Straight Dopers! I am currently teaching myself HTML, but I have a curious problem that some of you might be able to help me with. The book I am using advocates looking at HTML source already on the Web to see how certain things are done. However, I do the right click on the mouse, click on View Source, and get nothing. No error messages, nothing at all. I suspect it might have something to with the popup blocker running, but turning it off had no effect. Anyone have any ideas?
fandj
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### Author:  [@II\_Gyan\_II](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/II_Gyan_II)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 6:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-html-source/208744/2 "2003-10-21T18:46:52Z")
What bowser and which sites did you try?
I’m using Firebird 0.7 and I can’t seem to view source. But in IE 6, I can.
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### Author:  [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/viewing-html-source/208744/3 "2003-10-21T19:47:08Z")
This thread was accidentally started twice. I’ll close this one and direct further comment to [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=218682](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=218682)
bibliophage
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