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How do they do that?
Some stumblers seem to do some really clever things on their pages and you might wonder, "how do they do that?" You can ask them, of course, or you can learn a trick that lets you find out for yourself.
It's a browser feature called "View Source" - and if you are using Firefox user you will find it provides a major advantage over Internet Explorer.
If you are using Internet Explorer:
Go to the page that you are interested in and right-click on the page. A menu will pop up, and you want to select the View Source option. This will launch a new window that gives you all the code that was used to construct the page you were looking at.
The bad news: there can be an awful lot of code to look through and it can be hard to work out which is the bit you are really interested in. Here's a tip - find a bit of text on the page that is near to, or in the section that you are interested in. Now find that same bit of text in the "View Source" page. Also, you might want to consider printing the "View Source" page out and using a highlighter pen to work out what does what.
If you are using Firefox:
Exactly the same deal as for Internet Explorer, but here the option is called "View Page Source." Firefox has another little trick up it's sleeve, though: if you use the mouse to highlight the part of the page you are interested in and then right-click, you will find an option called "View Selection Source". This time you will find the pop-up window highlights the bit of code you are interested in - much easier to work out what is going.
These two screen-grabs show you the Firefox option.
