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<h1 id="viewing_page_info">Viewing Page Info</h1>
<p>The Page Info dialog box consists of several tabs that display different
kinds of information about the page you are viewing. This section provides a
brief overview of the information available in each tab.</p>
<p>To view Page Info for the page currently displayed by the browser, open the
View menu and choose Page Info. You can then click the tab that corresponds
to the kind of information you want to view.</p>
<p>Most of the information displayed by the General, Media, Forms and Links
tabs in Page Info is taken from the HTML source for the page. This
information is usually of interest only to web developers and other
specialists.</p>
<p>For detailed information about HTML, including the tags displayed by Page
Specification</a>.</p>
<div class="contentsBox">In this section:
<ul>
<li><a href="#general_tab">General Tab</a></li>
<li><a href="#media_tab">Media Tab</a></li>
<li><a href="#forms_tab">Forms Tab</a></li>
<li><a href="#links_tab">Links Tab</a></li>
<li><a href="#security_tab">Security Tab</a></li>
</ul>
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<h2 id="general_tab">General (Page Info Tab)</h2>
<p>When you choose Page Info from the View menu, the General tab displays basic
information about the page that you are viewing in the browser.</p>
<p>The top portion displays the following information:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Title</strong>: The name of the page (if it has one).</li>
<li><strong>Address</strong>: The
<a href="glossary.xhtml#url">Uniform Resource Locator</a> for the
page—that is, the standardized address that appears in the Location
Bar near the top of the browser window.</li>
<li><strong>Type</strong>: The document type of the page (usually text/html
for web pages).</li>
<li><strong>Render Mode</strong>: Indicates whether the browser is using
<strong>quirks mode</strong> or <strong>standards compliance mode</strong>
to lay out the page. Quirks mode takes account of nonstandard behavior that
may be used by some older web pages designed for older versions of web
browsers that are not fully standards compliant. Standards compliance mode
adheres strictly to standards specifications. Your browser chooses the
render mode automatically according to information contained in the web
page itself.</li>
<li><strong>Text Encoding</strong>: The text encoding used for this HTML
document.</li>
<li><strong>Size</strong>: The size of the file, if available.</li>
<li><strong>Referring URL</strong>: The address from where the current page
has been reached, if available.</li>
<li><strong>Modified</strong>: The date the page was last modified, if
available.</li>
</ul>
<p>The <i>Meta</i> portion displays the metatags specified by the page. Metatags
provide information about the type of content displayed by a page, such as a
general description of the page, keywords for search engines, copyright
information, and so on.</p>
<p>The <i>Security information for this page</i> portion contains security
information concerning ownership and encryption. More details are available in
the <a href="#security_tab">Security tab</a>.</p>
<h2 id="media_tab">Media (Page Info Tab)</h2>
<p>When you choose Page Info from the View menu and click the Media tab, you
see a list of all the images and other media elements displayed by the
page.</p>
<p>The top portion lists basic information about each element, including its
address (<a href="glossary.xhtml#url">URL</a>) and type.</p>
<p>When you select a media element listed in the top portion of the Media tab,
the bottom portion displays available information about that element, such as
description, size, or dimensions.</p>
<p>You can also see the selected element at the bottom of the dialog box. To
see larger images, you need to click the lower-right corner of the Page Info
dialog box and drag.</p>
<p>To save a media element as a separate file:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Save As</strong>: Select the element you want to save, click Save
As, and navigate to the location where you want to save it.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="forms_tab">Forms (Page Info Tab)</h2>
<p>When you choose Page Info from the View menu and click the Forms tab, you
see information about all the forms displayed by the page you are currently
viewing in the browser.</p>
<p>The top portion lists basic information about the way each form in the page
is specified in the HTML source:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Name</strong>: The form's name, if any.</li>
<li><strong>Method</strong>: The HTML method used to send information
captured by the form back to the web server. <tt>GET</tt> appends your
filled-in values to the website address to which it submits the form.
<tt>POST</tt> sends the values to the website as parameters that can be
read by a program on the website.</li>
<li><strong>Form Action</strong>: The URL of the program to be invoked when
the form is submitted.</li>
</ul>
<p>When you select a form listed in the top portion of the Forms tab, the
bottom portion displays detailed information about the way each of that
form's elements is specified in the HTML source:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Label</strong>: The element's label (if it is tagged as such
in the HTML).</li>
<li><strong>Field Name</strong>: The element's name.</li>
<li><strong>Type</strong>: The element's input type, such as
<tt>TEXT</tt> (for submitting text), <tt>RADIO</tt> (for a radio button),
or <tt>HIDDEN</tt> (for storing information that is submitted but not
displayed on the screen).</li>
<li><strong>Current Value</strong>: The current value of the element. For
example, the current value of a text element is the text it currently
contains.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="links_tab">Links (Page Info Tab)</h2>
<p>When you choose Page Info from the View menu and click the Links tab, you
see a list of all the links available on that page. The following information
is displayed for each link:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Name</strong>: The text displayed in the browser as a link.</li>
<li><strong>Address</strong>: The <a href="glossary.xhtml#url">URL</a> for the
page to which the link points.</li>
<li><strong>Type</strong>: The type of link, such Anchor (for a link to a
specific place in an HTML document) or Form Submission.</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="security_tab">Security (Page Info Tab)</h2>
<p>When you choose Page Info from the View menu and click the Security tab, you
see information about
<a href="glossary.xhtml#authentication">authentication</a> and
<a href="glossary.xhtml#encryption">encryption</a> for the web page you are
viewing. The top portion indicates whether the website's identity has
been verified, and the bottom portion describes whether the page was
encrypted when it was received by the browser.</p>
<p>You can also open the Security tab directly by clicking the lock icon in the
lower-right corner of any browser window.</p>
<p>The top portion of the Security tab can display any of these messages:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Website Identity Not Verified</strong>: The website you are
viewing did not present a certificate to authenticate itself. Therefore,
Certificate Manager cannot verify its identity. It is possible, though
unlikely, that the website is not what it claims to be.</li>
<li><strong>Website Identity Verified</strong>: The certificate that
Certificate Manager has used to verify this website's identity was
issued by a certificate authority (CA) marked as one that you trust. You
can be reasonably confident that the website is what it claims to be.</li>
</ul>
<p>The bottom portion of the Security tab can display any of these
messages:</p>
<ul>
<li><strong>Connection Not Encrypted</strong>: It is possible that other
people can view information sent from your computer to the website or
information sent by the website to your computer, but it is unlikely that
someone is actually doing so.</li>
<li><strong>Connection Encrypted</strong>: In general, the strength of an
encrypted connection depends on the length of the keys used for encryption,
measured in bits. The longer the key, the stronger the
encryption—that is, the harder it is to for an unauthorized person to
unscramble the encrypted information.</li>
</ul>
<p>Lack of any encryption or lack of strong encryption should be of concern
only if you are sending or viewing confidential information, such as your
credit card number.</p>
<p>You can quickly check the encryption status of a web page by noting the
state of the lock icon at the bottom-right corner of the browser window. For
more details, see
<a href="using_certs_help.xhtml#checking_security_for_a_web_page">Checking
Security for a Web Page</a>.</p>
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