The *HTML* panel shows a dynamic view on what you see inside the page. It
doesn't show the source HTML. Therefore it uses the DOM functions of
Firefox to access the contents, which return the HTML as it was interpreted
by the browser.
I.e. the HTML panel can't show you entity escaping errors.
An admittedly inconvenient way to check for not escaped entities is
searching within the response bodies inside the *Net* panel.
Sebastian
On Monday, June 4, 2012 11:07:29 PM UTC+2, Ben wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> Is there any means by which to disable HTML entity escaping *and*un-escaping
> in Firebug's HTML pane?
>
> There are times when I need to determine whether or not the raw HTML
> source code contains erroneously un-escaped HTML entities. The problem is
> that Firebug seems to convert un-escaped entities in the raw HTML to
> properly-escaped entities in the HTML pane (and vice-versa, when the *Show
> Basic Entities* option is un-checked in the HTML tab's drop-down menu).
>
> To explain further, if I include an un-escaped ampersand in the raw HTML
> source ("&"), Firebug always displays that character as "&" in the HTML
> pane. If I examine the DOM inspector, the *outerHTML* property displays
> "&", the *childNodes* property displays "&", and the *text* property
> displays "&". There seems to be no consistency.
>
> I tried un-checking the *Show Basic Entities* option, but that just
> creates the opposite problem: when the raw HTML source contains "&", and I
> un-check *Show Basic Entities*, Firebug's HTML pane always displays "&",
> even if I escape the ampersand in the raw HTML source ("&").
>
> All I want to be able to do is know whether the entity is escaped in the
> raw HTML or not. (And no, I can't use the browser's "View Source" feature,
> because I'm dealing with heavy AJAX and no deep-linking.)
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
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