hide html code on my website -help

**daabomb2002** · 05-01-2007, 06:19 PM

Hi,

I have a website www.linkdumptube.com and when i browse to it using IE,and click on View source, I can see all my html code. Is there anyway I can hide this?

Thanks

**deronsizemore** · 05-01-2007, 07:59 PM

No, I don't believe there is a way to hide it.

Why would you want to? If you're afraid someone is going to steal your design, I wouldn't worry about it, it's easy enough to duplicate a design with or without the html code.

**Nico** · 05-01-2007, 08:58 PM

The short answer is: No.

There are some things you can do to make it hard on someone for reading your HTML source, but at the end, they will be able to read it if they want. Most of this things use some Javascript code to ofuscate or "encrypt" your html, disable links/buttons, etc.

Like deronsizemore said, don't worry about it.

**KLB** · 05-01-2007, 09:17 PM

Well you could use an encrypted JavaScript and JavaScript's document.write function to store and write out the entire page, this would "hide" the HTML, but also make the site completely unusable to anyone who did not have JavaScript enabled and it would be impossible for search engines to index your site.

**Nico** · 05-01-2007, 10:31 PM

plus...it wouldn't be very complicated to get the correct html for someone how knows javascript.

**allout** · 05-02-2007, 02:38 AM

I agree with the rest, not worth the hassle. It is almost the same as the old saying "locks only keep the honest people honest." If someone wanted to steal something they can get it, as you see on many hacker and webmaster forums, people are selling MySpace Cloned sites and others like them.

Just don't lose sleep over it.