Hello,
Is there any means by which to disable HTML entity escaping *and*un-escaping in
Firebug's HTML pane?
There are times when I need to determine whether or not the raw HTML source
code contains erroneously un-escaped HTML entities. The problem is that
Firebug seems to convert un-escaped entities in the raw HTML to
properly-escaped entities in the HTML pane (and vice-versa, when the *Show
Basic Entities* option is un-checked in the HTML tab's drop-down menu).
To explain further, if I include an un-escaped ampersand in the raw HTML
source ("&"), Firebug always displays that character as "&" in the HTML
pane. If I examine the DOM inspector, the *outerHTML* property displays
"&", the *childNodes* property displays "&", and the *text* property
displays "&". There seems to be no consistency.
I tried un-checking the *Show Basic Entities* option, but that just creates
the opposite problem: when the raw HTML source contains "&", and I un-check
*Show Basic Entities*, Firebug's HTML pane always displays "&", even if I
escape the ampersand in the raw HTML source ("&").
All I want to be able to do is know whether the entity is escaped in the
raw HTML or not. (And no, I can't use the browser's "View Source" feature,
because I'm dealing with heavy AJAX and no deep-linking.)
Thanks for any help.
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