Windows Keyboard Shortcuts

Ctrl+U: View Source in Firefox

Posted in Internet Explorer, Firefox by estephen on August 16th, 2007

Maybe you’ll never need this one, but sometimes you want to see the actual HTML code used to create a web page.

In Firefox, go to the page you want to view and then press Ctrl+U. A new Window appears with the HTML code visible and colored appropriately.

(In Internet Explorer, you can press Alt+V to open the View menu, then press C to select the Source command. A Notepad window appears with the HTML code available for editing.)

Remember, Alt+F4 closes a window — use that when you’re done looking at the source HTML code.

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  1. Chris said,

    on January 23rd, 2008 at 11:58 pm

    Ctrl-U seems to do nothing in Internet Explorer 7 for me (Windows XP). What version was this shortcut tested with?

  2. André Felipe said,

    on June 21st, 2008 at 4:44 am

    Yep, Chris. It seems that nobody will answer your question. Don’t you hate it when the blogger owner simply don’t care about your comments and don’t reply to them? :(

  3. estephen said,

    on June 23rd, 2008 at 11:18 am

    Sorry guys — missed Chris’s question when it first came up in January. I certainly do care.

    Chris, you’re right, and I’m wrong. It looks like Ctrl+U doesn’t work in any version of IE past version 4, so I’ve edited the article accordingly.

    The only keyboard method in recent version of IE is to press Alt+V to open the View menu, then C to select the Source command.

  4. Ростислав said,

    on August 20th, 2009 at 11:24 pm

    Занимательно написано, но как говорится, для точного представления нужно как минимум хотя бы три источника :)

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