display aspx source code in browser

tohanew · Apr 28, 2012

I am writing some sample aspx pages and I would like a quick way to display the actual ASP code that was used to render the page via a hyperlink. Similar to View/Source but I dont want the HTML source code, I want the source code of the actual aspx page on the server. Can anyone think of the EASIEST way to accomplish this? THANKS.Hmmm, The quickest way I could think of doing it is to copy your .aspx code into a text file (.txt) and then link your (view_source) link to the text file. Of course you wouldn't be able to display your website graphics/headings etc. when showing this file. Maybe you can make the view source link as a popup window. The advantage of a text only file and not having your site headings etc. is that people can simply copy and paste and try the code, or easily print it out. actually, thats the first thing I tried just figuring that would work but when i linked to the txt file, nothing showed up in the browser. ????????Yeah, sorry about the .txt file, funny how it doesn't display anything if its code, its a .txt file, why does IE even parse a text file? Anyway, the solution to your problem is to set the Content-Type of the page to "text". I have code below for a page like this. You will just need to indent the code properly. Greg <html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text"; charset=iso-8859-1"> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFFF" text="#000000"> <script language = "vb" runat = "server"> Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load Dim i as Integer Dim PixelY as Integer PixelY = 50 For i = 1 to 10 Dim button As New System.Web.UI.WebControls.Button() button.Text = "Click me" button.Style.Item("left") = "10px" button.Style.Item("top") = PixelY & "px" button.Style.Item("position") = "absolute" 'myDiv.innerHTML += " BUTID = but" & i 'button.ID = "but" & i Me.FindControl("Form1").Controls.Add(button) 'AddHandler button.Click, AddressOf Me.clickButton response.write (" ") PixelY += 30 myDiv.innerHTML += " " & i Next End Sub Sub clickButton(ByVal sender As Object, _ ByVal e As System.EventArgs) myDiv.innerHTML = "Button Clicked" End Sub </script> <form id = "Form1" runat = "server"> <div id = "myDiv" runat = "server" /> </form> </body> </html>

display aspx source code in browser

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