Most of the times, when we visit a nice looking website, we always want to look at it's HTML source code. On desktop browsers, we simple just right-click and click on "view page source" from the context menu but there's no option like this on mobile devices. So then, how do we view the source code on a mobile device?
If we are to observe carefully, whenever we click on "view page source" on a desktop browser, it opens a new url in this format view-source:https://path/to/url.
If we apply this same trick on a mobile device, it works as expected.
Steps to view source code
Visit the website which you want to view it's source code.
Click inside the address bar and append
view-source:before the url of the website.
Click the send button and the page will load with the source code of the file.
NB: Even though I used Chrome's mobile browser, the method is the same in all the major browsers.
Top comments (2)
Or simply use view-source.hellafast.digital
We method in the article doesn’t work on iOS or for Android users who don’t use Chrome. They are scarce, but there are some
Well, on Android, the about method works with: