Do you have any ideas/tips how Firebug could be improved to help more in this case? E.g. could the HTML preview for HTTP responses in the Net panel be improved?
Honza On Jun 5, 7:05 am, Sebastian Zartner <[email protected]> wrote: > The *HTML* panel shows a dynamic view on what you see inside the page. It > doesn't show the source HTML. Therefore it uses the DOM functions of > Firefox to access the contents, which return the HTML as it was interpreted > by the browser. > I.e. the HTML panel can't show you entity escaping errors. > > An admittedly inconvenient way to check for not escaped entities is > searching within the response bodies inside the *Net* panel. > > Sebastian > > > > > > > > On Monday, June 4, 2012 11:07:29 PM UTC+2, Ben wrote: > > > 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. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/firebug
