Can't find a text displaying on a website in its source code?

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I don't understand why this happens?
I thought if you can see and of course select the text on a website (to make sure it is not an image), you should find it in the website's source code. But I try this site and can't find the words "Your search", could you please explain to me why that is?

Here is the site I've discovered the odd thing to me and led to ask this question: Search for viphalong

Your help would be highly appreciated!
Thanks!

Posted 2-Dec-12 22:42pm

supernorb

Updated 2-Dec-12 22:47pm

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[no name] 3-Dec-12 4:43am

Which site ?

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 4:47am

There is no "Your search" text in given site. where is it ? so how could you find it ?

supernorb 3-Dec-12 4:50am

Really? If you want I will print my screen and let you see the text in a red circle. The whole sentence is "Your search viphalong did not match any documents". Please recheck it! Thanks!

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 4:52am

is there login involved in this process ?

supernorb 3-Dec-12 4:56am

No, I don't have any account logged in involving this site! I've my Google account logged in all the time, but I don't think that site has any association with Google.

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 5:09am

see my solution, that will help you to identify.

supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:28am

I've learned programming web just for 2 months, but my understanding about the relationship between the page's representation and its source code has formed for years. FireBug is quite nice, I like it, it helps me find where the 'Your search' is but I still don't understand why that text can't be found in the normal source code, even the DIV tag enclosing the whole sentence... there are many other elements which I can't find in normal source code, just in FireBug's window. Thank you for the good add-on.

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**AmitGajjar** · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-02T22:53:00

Solution 1

Hi,

You can inspect the element through FireBug[^].

This is addon of Firefox that will help you to identify DOM.

Best luck.

Posted 2-Dec-12 22:53pm

AmitGajjar

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supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:08am

Do you mean we can't explain the problem here? I really don't understand why you can't see the words 'Your search' on the site at the link I posted. Anyway, thank you, I'm going to install the add-on you've given.

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 5:10am

i have never said, we can't explain problem here.

supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:13am

But there isn't any explanation, OK. Now, could you tell me a simple step to use an add-on in FireFox, I've never used a one before. Thanks! Of course, I've installed the add-on successfully.

supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:16am

OK, I got it. Thanks. Sometimes I ask too soon before solving the question myself. Thanks again.

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 5:38am

glad, you solve your issue.

supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:51am

Not really, I got it and it here is how to use FireBug add-on, not my problem, =)) but this is enough for me. I don't think this is simple to me, just see my 2 other comments below.

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 5:52am

if you have any other query, post in separate thread. that will also help other people to learn from your problem.

do not post your query in comment.

supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:33am

Can't find the text in the source code, but when trying copying all the source code to Notepad and save as .html file, open that html file and it shows exactly the same what I see in the original file, of course the 'Your search' is there. I can see it, can't find it... What a strange thing. OMG!!!!!

supernorb 3-Dec-12 5:48am

With the help of FireBug, I've learned that they use 'html.push()' (don't know what it is, maybe a method of html object in jQuery?) to add content dynamically to the html page, yes, they has a function to push 'Your search...' to html page and that function is saved in a js file and loaded from another location. The problem turns that why the content added by 'html.push()' can be hidden in source code of the page? Maybe after learning jQuery, I will understand all the thing. Thank you!!!!

AmitGajjar 3-Dec-12 5:50am

there are a lot to learn... its just beginning.