Stealing A Website

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Th web is a funny thing. Did you know it is possible to check the code (HTML/CSS/JS) from any website. This article will cover several techniques in analyzing and "stealing" code.

Using the inspector

Visit any website in Chrome or Firefox, right click on any element (ex. an image) and select Inspect.

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This will open up the developer tool an shows the HTML code for this element.

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Viewing the source

Visit any website in Chrome or Firefox, right click on any place in the website and select View Page Source.

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This will open a new tab with the complete source of the HTML document. You could use this to copy over the source of a Gutenberg book and add your own flavor of styling.

Stealing Web Source.png

It is also possible the select a part of the

Saving a webpage

Viewing the source (in the step above) and copying the page does not include attachments like images and CSS files.

By clicking File ->