[Greasemonkey] getting all of web page into a string

Mon May 1 21:37:36 EDT 2006

On May 1, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Bill Donnelly wrote:

> I believe you have to do some additional trickery to get the WHOLE  
> page
> source. There is code on how to do it in one of the posts on this list
> somewhere. Basically, document.body.innerHTML doesn't get you the  
> stuff
> in the head and such above the body. Do a search on the list for
> "document.body.innerHTML" (Google with "Greasemonkey") and you should
> find the post about how to do it.

This returned the content of the HTML element:

   document.documentElement.innerHTML

This is the content of the HTML tag, which includes the head and body
elements, but not the <html> tag itself, the document type declaration,
or any SGML comments outside the HTML tag.

This seems to be the technique used by the various "view source"
bookmarklets out there.

I didn't delve into the inner workings and hidden mechanisms of Firefox
to see how it implements the view-source: protocol, but if that's
accessible from GM via JS, you'd be in fat city, because it contains
the whole wretched mess, doctype and all.

Dave