How to view a page's source when a javascript modal popup loads first?

Scenario:

You go to a page. Before loading, a javascript modal popup loads. Firebug has yet to pick up on the source. However, this code is obviously living in your browser. How can you view the source, at this time?

EDIT: It appears that this popup is not javascript driven. I have disabled javascript and it still loads. However, it definitely looks like javascript... How would this occur without javscript?

Chris

Posted 2009-07-30T14:49:13.763

Reputation: 583

Can you post a screenshot of the popup... – pelms – 2009-07-30T15:22:26.133

i'm not suer where icould upload a screenshot. it appears that when a file is being authorized by .htaccess, you can not load the page source beforehand. i didn't know this. does this sound like the answer? – Chris – 2009-07-30T16:19:50.243

If it's a .htaccess login box then the browser isn't sent anything until you log in - do you see a login prompt? You can use (for example) http://tinypic.com/ for screenshots

– pelms – 2009-07-30T17:20:18.577

Answers

Try prepending 'view-source:' to the URL;

view-source:http://www.google.co.uk

This works in Firefox and Chrome for me.

Tom

Posted 2009-07-30T14:49:13.763

Reputation: 571

check this out : http://bedaux.net/cpp2html/ the popup that comes up has no editable address bar and greyed out "save page as" or "show source code" options. how do you do then ?

– v.oddou – 2014-06-25T03:10:51.137

If you use firefox, you can select text/item/etc at the popup and click in context menu on "show source code for selection".

or better

Firefox Addon - Web Developer 1.1.8

MicTech

Posted 2009-07-30T14:49:13.763

Reputation: 9 888

I would use the firefox plugin called JSView. This is how I have been getting around these types of roadblocks.

JSView is available here

Axxmasterr

Posted 2009-07-30T14:49:13.763

Reputation: 7 584

I've just downloaded this plugin. I've obviously never used it, but it doesn't appear that I can use it (on right click) on this popup. – Chris – 2009-07-30T14:55:13.910

this is probably due to my new realization that i've posted as an edit to the question. Hm.. – Chris – 2009-07-30T14:57:29.290

You actually have to explictly run JSView from the tools menu at the top of FF – Axxmasterr – 2009-07-30T15:05:53.383