The Document Inspector panel of WorldWideWeb

The document inspector panel

This panel allows you to see the addresses of the current document, and the documents to which it is linked. You bring it up using the Inspect item in the document menu.

It also allows you to open any document by its WWW address. You can also make links to documents given only their address, without having to load them.

The items on the inspector panel are as follows.

Title field

This displays the title of the document and allows you to edit it. The title should be something which will be understood out of context. It should be up to 70 characters long, without any newlines.

To cahnge the title, select the field with the mouse, tpe in your new title, and click on the "Set" button or press RETURN. The stored file will not be affected until you have saved the document.

Address field

This gives for information the WWW address of the document in the main window. You can quote the document in correspondence using this address.

After you have ued the "inspect selected link" button, it gives the address of the anchor which you have selected, if any. This is just the document address followed by a hash sign and the anchor identifier.

You cannot edit this field, but you can select it and copy from it.

Inspect Selected Link Button

Select some text in the main window which is marked as an "anchor" and click this button. The address of that anchor is displayed in the "address" field, and the address of any linked anchor is displayed in the "Other document" address section.

Link selection to other document

If you have the address of another document in the "other document" section of the panel, you can link the selected text of the current document to it without having to load it first. This is useful if the document is really big or currently inaccessible for some reason.

Copy

This button copies the adderss of the current document into the address of the "other" document, so that you can edit it to a similar address.

Other document address

The address of the document to be opened or linked to. Editable.

Open

This loads the document whose address is given in the "other dcoument address" field.

Open showing source.

This loads the document whose addres is given in the "other document address" field, but displays the raw SGML source for diagnostic purposes.
Tim BL