operating systems - How to see what excatly is copied (in html code) when I copy from website content in Chrome or other modern browsers?

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2014-07
  • colinfang

    When I copy some text content from a website, I would assume the content is stored as html in clipboard since it tends to keep formats. And those htmls are different from the ones in page source (browsers may have appropriately edited a bit. E.g. browsers may inline the external referenced css in the web clip)

    Is there a way to see what exactly those htmls are, in raw/un-rendered format?

    I would like simple approaches in Ubuntu as well as in Windows.

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  • Yo-yo

    I'm guessing you would like to see the RAW data (html code) that is copied to the clipboard in a scenario like this:

    • You copy some block of text from a website
    • When you paste into 'Word' it pastes it as rich text (colors, URLs, etc)

    I cannot think of way to do this natively, though someone might be able to correct me.

    You could try 'Clipboard Viewer'

    This will show an HTML encoding of the data and more.


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  • Questioner

    I have gone to a wesite call browsercam.com they allow a free trial and then make you setup a payment plan. Are there any free services that are similar to this?


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  • BenA

    You could try out BrowserShots, its free ;)

    This will also be useful if you want to look at the site in multiple different versions of the same browser (IE6, IE7, IE8 etc), without having to go through installing each version, checking the site then moving on to the next version.

  • Joey

    Browsershots is one way.

    Another one would be Expression Web with SuperPreview which is much nicer integrated into web authoring tools. But you need some browsers for that.

  • pkaeding

    There is also Litmus, of course. They have a free version of their service that might fit your needs.

    Litmus is made by the folks that make doctype, which is another member of the Stack Overflow League of Justice.

  • altermativ

    You should check out BrowserLab , from Adobe, which "provides web designers exact renderings of their web pages in multiple browsers and operating systems". The list is limited but it's working alright.

  • jfmessier

    Another alternative is to use some addons, such as those in Firefox, under Windows, that will actually launch an IE session, from inside of Firefox, which means that for the two biggest browsers, you can test them under a single program, Firefox.

    As well, Opera also has some settings where you can "fake" the actual browser name reported to the web server.

    JF

  • anon man

    http://tredosoft.com/Multiple%5FIE

    this one's been really good to me. you can run multiple IE versions concurrently and see how things look in say ie5 vs ie7, etc. good stuff

  • eidylon

    http://spoon.net/browsers/ - this site allows you to download and run multiple browsers AND versions of browsers without needing to actually install them. They each get virtualized into their own little sandbox automatically. I've used this site QUITE regularly for testing our sites we design.