View Source - Not Accurate

[stuartc1]

Hi,

Whilst working on debugging some javascript using Firefox (v1.5) I noticed that the 'View Source' is presenting incomplete source.

My senario:

I have php generating options for a select box, in IE it works fine and the options appear as expected. In FF no options appear, and stranger still, when I view source in FF, nothing is there for the options either.

Anyone else ever seen this strange behaviour? and any solution to force FF to show the true source?

[asquithea]

IIRC, View Source shows you the page after it's been run through the parser. That tends to mean that invalid HTML can get munged.

Try running the page through the W3C validator.

[stuartc1]

The problem was that IE was caching my code, and showing source from and previous version of my script. FF was correct, the problem with was with the IE cache. I thought I was going nuts there!