Question

When I open the IE8 Developer Tools (using F12), click on Scripts, and choose the project’s .js file, the Javascript that is displayed is minified. This makes debugging almost impossible. In researching, I found a reference to a “configuration button” that appears would pretty-print the Javascript source. Unfortunately I cannot find that button in the IE8 Developer Tool tool-strip or menu. XP SP3 TIA Gus

Answer 1

unfortunately that is only available in IE9’s developer tools, in the configuration menu:

MSDN article on Dev Tools in IE9

Edit:

One last option could be using FirebugLite, if infact IE8 is minifying the javascript for you, Firebug should not, you can get FirebugLite in IE by using it in a bookmarklet: http://getfirebug.com/firebuglite

basically what you have to do is create a bookmark in IE (of say the firebuglite website) then right click -> properties, and change the URL to be:

javascript:(function(F,i,r,e,b,u,g,L,I,T,E){if(F.getElementById(b))return;E=F[i+'NS']&&F.documentElement.namespaceURI;E=E?F[i+'NS'](E,'script'):F[i]('script');E[r]('id',b);E[r]('src',I+g+T);E[r](b,u);(F[e]('head')[0]||F[e]('body')[0]).appendChild(E);E=new%20Image;E[r]('src',I+L);})(document,'createElement','setAttribute','getElementsByTagName','FirebugLite','4','firebug-lite.js','releases/lite/latest/skin/xp/sprite.png','https://getfirebug.com/','#startOpened');

when you click the bookmark, firebug should popup in the bottom of the page

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