I’m a member in a website and there’s a huge (automatically generated) HTML table on this PHP page that is only available to me and I wanted the table source code because I want to copy it to a HTML page on my computer to then process it with a program.
The problem is that when I right-click to display the page source code it works. However, I’m tired of looking at the source code and inside all the linked JavaScript files. I can’t seem to find the table or any data of it on the scripts/page source codes.
I can select the table data and copy it, but it is just the data. It doesn’t say anything about flash, so I’m assuming it’s not flash. The data of the scripts/pages isn’t obfuscated, it’s easily human-readable.
I used Google Chrome’s ‘inspect element’ and it worked.
I was thinking on doing a PHP script that would import data from a similar table, but I will have to know more about a lot of stuff mentioned here.
What can I be doing wrong or what can cause this kind of behavior?
Two possible reasons could be that the table may be returned from an AJAX call to another page that returns the HTML for the table, or they could be generating the table’s html code and contents on the fly from a list of values coming from javascript or some other source rather than serving the HTML output to you from the server side.
Something you can do to figure it out is see if there are any empty div or other html elements where the table appears to be inserted, and search their javascript files for references to those elements. That may shed some light on how they populate it.
Feel free to update your question with the raw html (where you don’t see the table) and maybe some javascript and we can look. Use pastebin if it is a lot of content.