The Best Find Ever

While I was working on the styling for the PBA menu system yesterday, I came across a bit of a conundrum. I needed to look at the HTML that was being created for the menu so I could determine which styles I need to modify. However, in DotNetNuke the menus are created dynamically using javascript; the browser doesn't actually know what HTML makes up the menu until after the page has been rendered, the standard view source option is utterly useless.

Nevermind, Firefox to the rescue!!!

Thank heavens Firefox is open source! When a developer comes accross a problem, rather than just accepting that they can't do something and moving on down another avenue, they can write something that will do what they want and then publish it on the web so that others with similar problems can benefit, thus making the original product better.

This is exactly what Jennifer Madden had done. She, it seems, has run into a very similar problem and written a lovely little extension to Firefox which saved me hours of trawling through javascript. Thank you to Jennifer who's extension View Source Chart saved me hours and several Asprin, finally getting to see the source which was being generated and displayed in the browser.