No more View Source for me in IE6

right-click or menu choice on all sites give me nothing !

[fefem]

Hi,

For some time, I am not able to see any more source of a HTML page. (All pages like google, yahoo or my own site)! If i use "View Menu/View Source" or right button and View Source, nothing happens. I'm in W2K with IE 6.0.26.

May be it's linked but when i want to save a picture that's on the web, i can it only in the bmp format.

I don't know where is it come from and what must i do... Could you help me? Please... :(

Thanks

SR

[EliteWeb]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld fefem! I've run into the same problems before also. What it seems is after I restart my computer I'm able to view the source again. What it seemed is that I viewed that page source before so it was cached on my hard drive. For you after you restart can you view the pages? Also is it that you viewed that page before in a session and you tried to view it again? Sometimes I get crazy and add a? to the end of the url or some other charectors after the? and I can view the source again :)

[Snoozer]

Delete your temporary internet files. This should do the trick most of the time. This happens when they become to full. I have had this problem before.

[fefem]

Thanks, EliteWeb and Snoozer!

After Deleting Temporaly internet files, it's work, i can see the WebmasterWorld.com source! Coool...

And it's the same for the only bmp format!

It's Work, i can save in jpeg format as i will.

Thanks, thanks, thanks...

I'll go to sleep now... Aaaah :o))))

SR

[EliteWeb]

Snoozer Good point, often I dont just delete files since XP likes to hide copies of them elsewhere on the hard drive anyways ;) But that is a good quick fixer :) And fefem glad it worked for you, get some sleep ;) See ya tomorrow!

[ShawnR]

Thanks for this. I had the same problem, so searched for "view source" using site search, and got to this thread, which solved my problem.

Interestingly, the site search also showed up many other older threads asking for help with this problem on older versions of IE, so it seems this problem has been around since IE 5.5, was on Microsoft's list of known bugs for IE 5.5, but wasn't fixed in IE 6. Go figure!

Shawn

[karlkuehn]

Hey, thanks for the tip! I was getting a little worried about my ability to view the source! Deleting the temporary internet files fixed the problem for me. :)

[larry12468]

I have tried everything mentioned in this forum so far, and I still cannot view the source.

Nothing happens when I click view source.

Very frustrating to try to design web pages without being to view the source.

Anybody have any more suggestions?

Thanks!

Larry

[tedster]

Some other ideas that have worked for some people:

1. Try "cleaning" your cookies folder, not just clearing it from Internet Tools:

File > Import and Export
Export Cookies (save to a temp file)
Import Cookies (from the temp file you created)

2. Some people report help by changing this:
Tools > Internet Options > Programs > HTML Editor

---This next one I haven't tried, so be intelligent if you try it.
As with all registry editing take every precaution, especially the backup of the existing registry.

3. Create this registry key if it doesn't exist.

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\View Source Editor\Editor Name]
@="C:\\Program Files\Accessories\wordpad.exe" ... or use whatever the path should be on your machine for your editor of choice

[larry12468]

FANTASTIC.

The step about exporting cookies to a file
and then importing them, did the trick!

I deleted the cookies in the exported file,
then imported the empty file, and bingo,
I can now view the source with notepad!

I can't thank you enough!

Larry

[juliecookies]

I tried to export/import cookies. It worked for exporting them, but said it could not import it.

[larry12468]

My browser said the same thing, could not import, but it fixed the problem anyway.

The problem keeps reoccuring, but this fixes it every time.

[WitchLars]

Here's another trick for fixing issues like these (found in the MS knowledge base while fixing my girlfriend's machine):

Go to Tools/Internet Options.
Go to the General tab and under Temporary Internet files, click Settings.
From there, click View Objects.
Delete anything shown with the status "Damaged".
Microsoft also recommends removing any objects listed as "Unknown", but I would use caution.

-Lars