[Love Calm Quiet]

I've tried clicking in different parts of a page (Safari 2.01) but still all the Safari's "View Source" option shows me is the code of one small frame.

Is there a trick to seeing all (or selecting among) the frames' source codes?

(I was trying to look at a spammer's site for clues about them, but the only source viewable had about 5 lines of code.)

[Love Calm Quiet]

(I know this could be considered an App Forum question, but I think it has a lot of relevance for helping us newbie designers look at how different sites are built)

[sboultbee]

You're going to need to right-click (or control-click with a single-button mouse) in the frame whose source you wish to view. This will bring up the context menu and one of the options will be 'View Frame Source'.

And, if you're going to be viewing source, consider installing SafariSource (http://www.tildesoft.com/Misc.html#SafariSource), it'll add syntax coloring to Safari's source view.

[Oisín]

You want to view the source of the 'main' page, the one that specifies the frameset?

I can't actually check that this works in Safari as well, 'cause I can't think of any frameset-driven sites to check it on; but, assuming it works the same as how I recall it working in IE on Windows, just go to View -> View source, instead of right-/option-clicking on the page.

That will only get you a short page, though, with a frameset defined in it. You can always just right-/option-click anywhere on any of the frames on the page and view the source that way, that gives you the source of the individual frame you're right-/option-clicking in.

[skalie]

Originally Posted by Love Calm Quiet

I've tried clicking in different parts of a page (Safari 2.01) but still all the Safari's "View Source" option shows me is the code of one small frame.

Is there a trick to seeing all (or selecting among) the frames' source codes?

(I was trying to look at a spammer's site for clues about them, but the only source viewable had about 5 lines of code.)

Another method.

If you look at the source of a frameset from, say, www.spammer.com , you'll more than likely see something like.........

Code:
<frame src="main.html">

Throw www.spammer.com/main.html into your browser, and there you are.