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+1  Q: 

Tool to display html as a hierarchy

I am working on a crawler and as a result, I need to look at the HTML of the site I will crawl, to make assumptions (Which will be soft coded).

HTML of large sites is not easy to read. Is there a tool which can display the HTML in some sort of tree-like hierarchy?

Thanks

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If you're looking forward to see the "tree-like hierarchy", you have this tool : http://tools.arantius.com/tabifier

yoda  2009-09-27 00:39:12
Good link but it can't parse the html I provide it (from a live site, not made by me).
dotnetdev  2009-09-27 01:03:30
If you just want to parse, why do you need the "tree-like hierarchy"?
yoda  2009-09-27 01:07:28
+2  A: 

If you want to actually look (like, you know, with your eyes) at some HTML source in a nicely formatted tree, then use Firebug. The HTML tab of that is perfect (and even editable if you want to play with it).

nickf  2009-09-27 00:44:08
Firebug is highly recommended, but be careful. Firebug display the HTML as Firefox reads it, which means it can manipulate it from the original context (the original HTML used). For example, it can close tags where they weren't closed in the original HTML.
jakeisonline  2009-09-27 00:46:40
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I'm surprised nobody has mentioned IE8.

Tools -> Developer Tools.

James Jones  2009-09-27 01:15:13
I'm surprised anyone here is using IE8
nickf  2009-09-27 08:38:58
Considering IE still dominates the browser usage share, you should probably consider using IE for testing.
James Jones  2009-09-28 13:34:25
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Google Chrome has something pretty similar to Firebug, built in. Right-click anywhere in the page and click Inspect element. That gives you a fully collapsed tree view of the source. You can expand and drill down as necessary.

Yawar  2009-09-27 02:27:09

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