在网站的源代码上找不到html表

Question

I'm a member in a website and there's a huge (automatically generated) html table on this PHP page that is only available to me and I wanted the table source code because I want to copy it to a html page on my computer to then process it with a program.

Now the problem is, when I right-click to display the page source code it works but I'm tired of looking to the source code and even inside all the linked .js files and I can't seem to find the table or any data of it whatsoever on the scripts/page source codes.

I can select the table data and copy it (just the data) just fine and when I right click on it it doesn't say anything about flash or whatever so I'm assuming it's not flash. The data of the scripts/pages isn't obfuscated with strange characters or anything, it's easily human-readable.

What can I be doing wrong or what can cause this kind of behavior?

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UPDATE.

Using Google Chrome's 'inspect element' thing worked, I tried it first because I had it installed so it was faster. I will also use some methods that were talked here in order to see the most convenient to me, also I was thinking on doing a PHP script that would import data from a similar table but I will have to know more about a lot of stuff that was talked here.

Answer 1

Two possible reasons could be that the table may be returned from an AJAX call to another page that returns the HTML for the table, or they could be generating the table's html code and contents on the fly from a list of values coming from javascript or some other source rather than serving the HTML output to you from the server side.

Something you can do to figure it out is see if there are any empty div or other html elements where the table appears to be inserted, and search their javascript files for references to those elements. That may shed some light on how they populate it.

Feel free to update your question with the raw html (where you don't see the table) and maybe some javascript and we can look. Use pastebin if it is a lot of content.