Yikes, over a week since my last post. Busy, busy - thank google for coffee! Anyways, though this tip might be useful to someone. I was tasked with performing some minor changes to a site. The site was large and very high traffic, and because of how it was structured it was not feasible to create a test page or use a staging server - the changes had to be made to a live page. Normally this wouldn't be a big deal, except that the site was still using a heavy table-based layout. So many tables! Haven't seen so many in a long time... And worse, the indentation of the code was a mess, making it harder to figure out which tables needed to be moved, etc. Obviously, the goal was to find the "master table" for a section that needed to be moved, because to cut and paste that code to a new location w/out getting the closing table tag, or picking the wrong table would make for a screwed up page, which given the traffic would likely affect visitors... Here's where firebug com...
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