# FireFox View Source Annoyance

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [September 28, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648 "2004-09-28T12:55:59Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 17\
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**Author:** ![senocular](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/senocular/32/7217_2.png) [@senocular](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/senocular)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 12:55pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/1 "2004-09-28T12:55:59Z")

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GAH! 😱 I HATE that Firefox automatically closes what it thinks are html tags when you view source. That screwed a good hour out of my life :bored:

Example, save an html page with:

\<test\<br\>

Open in FF, view source. What do you see?

\<test\>\<br\>

HELLO! Thats _ **NOT** _ the correct source of that file. Sure, you may wish it was… but its not. How about… don’t do that?

I went to the FF forums but when I searched I kept getting over 100 posts for my terms and on top of that Im using ver 9 (not 1.0 PR) so it may not exist in the final version… can anyone check up on that for me?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 1:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/2 "2004-09-28T13:01:51Z")

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Well i don’t remeber seeing thta happen in my fierfox but all these flaws in everyone elses firefoxes is starting to make me thing maybe i should permanantly use IE

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/3 "2004-09-28T15:12:34Z")

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I’ve been trying to make FF my primary browser, but its hard with things like this :-/

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 3:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/4 "2004-09-28T15:34:26Z")

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Hmm… this bug annoys me a little as well. It’s exactly the same issue as one I bug reported - you serve XHTML documents as text/html not text/xml and firefox turns \<br /\> into \<br\> ☹ (it’s not fixed in 1.0PR, either :-/)

It’s to do with the way the text in the “View Source” is produced. Basically, it’s actually generated from the parsed structures in the browser - it’s not actually just the text in the page.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 4:37pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/5 "2004-09-28T16:37:42Z")

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> [@njs12345](#):
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> It’s to do with the way the text in the “View Source” is produced. Basically, it’s actually generated from the parsed structures in the browser - it’s not actually just the text in the page.

Yeah, I figured as much :-/  
thanks for confirming it

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 28, 2004, 11:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/6 "2004-09-28T23:44:13Z")

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Ha Ha Ha lmao…

I just tried it in 1.0PR and your right it does fix it for you.

Funny cause I pasted it into Dreamweaver and it highlights it yellow as a tag error in the view screen.

Save it and open it and it is gone, go to view source and it’s been fixed…

Although how you lost a hour makes no sense to me :h:

If you open the page in firefox it will display correctly so you wouldn’t be checking for errors.  
If you were debuging then wouldn’t you be using Dreamweaver or some other HTML editor which would show you the unclosed tag ?

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:06am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/7 "2004-09-29T00:06:44Z")

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the page is created dynamically

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:17am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/8 "2004-09-29T01:17:35Z")

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You wil have to use \<

instead of “\<” to make that works.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 1:45am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/9 "2004-09-29T01:45:14Z")

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> 

You wil have to use \<

instead of “\<” to make that works.

yeh thats it.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 9:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/10 "2004-09-29T09:40:30Z")

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Im not trying to make a \< in the html - it was right the way it was. Firefox just showed it as being wrong and that made me go back and try to figure out what was wrong even though nothing was.

Besides, don’t you think I would have known that? 😜

😉

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 12:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/11 "2004-09-29T12:02:41Z")

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Hahaha… no… i thought you were a complete noobie… :lol:

😜

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/12 "2004-09-29T15:28:07Z")

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> [@.soulty](#):
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> Hahaha… no… i thought you were a complete noobie… :lol:
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> 😜

Sen and noob can’t exist in the same sentence without the word “helping” 😛

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:30pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/13 "2004-09-29T19:30:30Z")

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> [@njs12345](#):
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> Sen and noob can’t exist in the same sentence without the word “helping” 😛

“A noob is helping sen”? 😛 umm no that’s not right 😉

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/14 "2004-09-29T19:58:32Z")

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> [@Syko](#):
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> “A noob is helping sen”? 😛 umm no that’s not right 😉

You and I think alike. Although I use fancier words.

:p:

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/15 "2004-09-29T20:00:25Z")

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BTW sen, why is your page still fixed with those unsightly tables?

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/16 "2004-09-29T20:02:16Z")

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shush you

theres nothing wrong with tables

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**Post date:** [September 29, 2004, 8:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/firefox-view-source-annoyance/65648/17 "2004-09-29T20:19:29Z")

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> [@senocular](#):
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> shush you
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> theres nothing wrong with tables

Tables, no. Tables for layout, yes. 😉