Jeremy!! As Homer Simpson says.. DOH! thanks. Now to figure out how to implement code with a headless browser to get the same content/html. much appreciation. On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 6:38 PM Jeremy Nicoll - ml fedora <jn.ml.fdr.287@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 2020-09-02 23:23, Jeremy Nicoll - ml fedora wrote: > > On 2020-09-02 17:12, bruce wrote: > >> Hi Jeremy. > >> > >> Doing a "view source" only shows the static source. To get the dynamic > >> gnerated content from the avascript you need to dive into the > >> Developers Tools/Inspector tab. > > > > Might not the problem be that what you're hoping to see is html > > corresponding to the DOM that's been altered by dynamic JS? But > > does that actually exist, other than in the browser's internal > > data/control structures? > > > > That is, I expect the browser reads the original html, parses it, > > builds a data structure that represents the DOM, then possibly > > modifies that (once or many times) via JS. It'd then render the > > page by working from the internal data structure, not any part > > of the character-based html. > > > > Do you see what I mean? > > Ah, forget that. I found from a test page here that right-clicking > the "<html>" at the very top of the html tree structure at the > bottom left of the tools window then using > > Copy - Inner HTML > or Copy - Outer HTML > > allowed me to paste the whole of the dynamic html into another > file. > > If instead of choosing "<html>" I chose eg "<head>" (or presumably > another smaller part of the tree, then I got just its corresponding > smaller amount of html. For example in a test page here whose > original source has a series of test paragraphs starting with just > > <p> > Body text 1 enclosed by p-tags. > </p> > > some JS colours that. Clicking on the leading "<p>" then choosing > the Copy - Inner HTML option, on the tools page when it's showing > the coloured results, gives me > > Body text 1 enclosed by p-tags. > > but Copy - Outer HTML gives > > <p style="background-color: red;"> > Body text 1 enclosed by p-tags. > </p> > > > > -- > Jeremy Nicoll - my opinions are my own > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
