Thanks, Honza. That worked only for the HTML/CSS file. I was looking
for the element in a PHP file. What I ended up doing was download the
theme's files to my desktop and ran a search on them for the element,
then looked inside each file that came up as a result. Took a bit more
time, but found the php file I was looking for.

On Dec 25, 12:32 pm, Jan Odvarko <[email protected]> wrote:
> You could also use the search box within the Net panel. It allows to
> search over all response bodies so you could find where the specific
> element came from.
> HTH
> Honza
>
> On Friday, December 25, 2009, John J Barton <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
>
> > All inputs are shown in the Net panel. All results are shown in the
> > HTML panel.
>
> > Neither Firebug nor Firefox know the source file names. Only the
> > server knows.
>
> > jib
>
> > On Dec 25, 9:42 am, redhat <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> Thanks. However, it does not "GET" the php file that the html was
> >> generated from. Any other suggestions? If Firebug does not do this,
> >> then what other tools can help me locate that file? For instance, I am
> >> looking for a particular <h1> tag.
>
> >> On Dec 24, 11:28 pm, John J Barton <[email protected]>
> >> wrote:
>
> >> > Yes look in the Net panel.
>
> >> > jib
>
> >> > On Dec 24, 11:09 pm, redhat <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> >> > > Hi- can Firebug tell me the name of the file where I'd find the source
> >> > > code that I am inspecting, just like it does for CSS files? For
> >> > > instance, in Wordpress themes where there are lots of php files. I'd
> >> > > be inspecting an element that doesn't show up in a php file itself,
> >> > > but WP is pulling the element from a supporting file (not sure how to
> >> > > describe this, but I hope this makes sense).
>
> >> > > FB tells me which CSS file has the styling information for that
> >> > > element, but what about the file that contains the html?
>
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