Have you ever wanted to try out a little piece of HTML without having to go through all the trouble of creating a file, saving it, and then opening that file?
Way back in the day certain browsers used to allow you to type in HTML in the URL field like about:this text should be bold, but I don’t think that works with any modern browsers.
Fortunately there is something that works even better: the Real-time HTML Editor. As you type HTML into the top pane, it displays in the lower pane.
I found a great use for it when showing Katy an embeddable widget from another site. We couldn’t see what the embeddable widget actually looked like without embedding it somewhere, but we didn’t actually want to embed it anywhere, so I went to the real-time editor and pasted in the code. Very handy.
chanel
March 7, 2008 at 11:44 am
I’m all about firebug, despite it being really buggy lately.
Jay
March 7, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Firebug has a place where you can just paste in html?
jon pugh
March 15, 2008 at 3:07 pm
yeah, you can essentially edit the whole page.
load up the HTML inspector and double click any html element (like )
it will load up a text field for all of the content for that body. delete all that stuff, and you essentially erase the page. then you can just paste in anything you want.
fun fun. :)