How To View HTML

By: Brenda Palmer

Break Studios Contributing Writer

Want to learn how to view HTML? You don't need to be a programmer to view HTML. HTML is a simple web programming language that was used extensively in the early days of the world wide web. HTML is still used as well as XML, Javascript, PHP and Perl.

1. Open Internet Explorer. Go to any web page. Then right click anywhere in the window and a gray box should pop up. In the gray box, there will be an option to view source. Click on View Source. Some web sites may have the source code blocked and nothing will appear. If so, go to another web site until you find one that will allow you to view the HTML source code. Almost all web sites allow you to view the HTML code.

2. View Source. Once you have opened up the source code in notepad you will see all the HTML code for the particular web site you are viewing. When looking at the HTML code it can look confusing, but in fact it is quite simple. The beginning of the code will have <HTML>. Then after this you will see the body of the code, which the body of the code is inside <body> and </body>. If there is a title it will be placed before the HTML body. If you want to know more about HTML coding, read our article "How to code in HTML." This will give you a simple over view of HTML code and how to program your first HTML web page.

Posted on: Apr. 14, 2010