22nd November 2001

We realize you can't always read Lockergnome when it first hits your Inbox. No worries, mate! Matthew Ellis submitted this the other day: "I was just catching up on a backlog of past issues when I came across a tip on how to get around those 'no right- click' sites. Well, I've got a couple of useful tips for looking at a page's source without using the rightmost mouse button. In Internet Explorer's Address field, you can enter: "view- source:[URL]" (sans quotes). Replace the [URL] variable with the full Web address of the page in question. Now, in newer versions of Windows, you can enter a Web address in the Open File dialog of any program. Fire up Notepad, click File | Open and enter a full URL (including the obligatory "http colon slash slash"). Presto! There's your source." Dude. This has got to be the coolest tip I've seen in a long while. Even if you're not having problems viewing the HTML source for a particular Web page, this trick is out of the box. I would have never thought about doing that before, ya know? Just goes to show you: it never hurts to try something new. Think you've got something cooler? Share with the rest of the class, please?!