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Posted by David Eiriz
David Eiriz
365 Points

when you right click and view source on google.com... what is all that code? is it encrypted or something?

jsut randomly clicked view source on google and all this crazyness comes up. can anyone tell me what that is exactly?

3 Answers

Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points
Kevin Korte
Kevin Korte
28,149 Points

What do you mean exactly? Screenshot?

zach sisk
zach sisk
2,649 Points
zach sisk
zach sisk
2,649 Points

That would be lots and lots of terribly formatted javascript.

Megan McLaughlin
Megan McLaughlin
9,667 Points
Megan McLaughlin
Megan McLaughlin
9,667 Points

I like to look at source code too, to see (well, TRY to see) how they did the site. And all that code makes my head spin. So I use this site to 'beautify' the code - it makes it all pretty so you can actually read it and (try) to figure out how the site/page was built:

http://ctrlq.org/beautifier/