#HOW TO SHOW HIDDEN TEXT ON WEBSITES FOR FREE#
#HOW TO SHOW HIDDEN TEXT ON WEBSITES HOW TO#

Not to worry, this hack is temporary and only affects you, nobody else and doesn’t make any permanent changes. This will eliminate the selected element from the code view and the browser. Now on your keyboard push the DEL key for DELETE. In the screenshot above the overlay window element is a but is not always. You will notice the code in HTML, if the HTML tab is not automatically selected, make sure to click it.Navigate with your mouse to the overlay window and firebug will draw a blue border around the element while simultaneously highlighting the code of the respective element.Once Firebug is open click the ELEMENT button that ‘s a blue rectangle with a mouse cursor icon.It’s usually an icon on the top or bottom toolbar. Access the web page you wish to remove the overlay and turn on Firebug.Once installed you will see it active in the Tools > Add-ons menu: Download Firebug and install on your web browser.

#HOW TO SHOW HIDDEN TEXT ON WEBSITES HOW TO#

So with a little help of a popular plug-in here’s how to eliminate the text covering overlay window. The first line is legible but the remainder of the text is blurred out. I may be losing out from not being a member, but I was really discouraged mainly due to Quora’s poor usability design and there is more… annoyance. I am not a member of Quora even though I was referred to it by other credible users to participate and it is highly used by the names of Tim Ferris, Ashton Kutcher, and Mark Zuckerberg. This appeared on the third page within Now here is an example of a poorly executed mandatory registration overlay window on But rather on a second or consecutive page visits of specific areas such as the review. The reason I think Glassdoor makes good use of this and offers a good user-experience is because it does not require registration upon the initial page visit.

#HOW TO SHOW HIDDEN TEXT ON WEBSITES FOR FREE#

provides great content for free but requires registration and participating to see more. I am going to show you how to how to remove the overlay so you can read the hidden page content.įirst I can tell you based on usability design here is an example of a well executed overlay window. It’s really annoying when you just want to see that one single page and could care less about any other content. Even though I agree it is a useful tactic, but it’s usually executed poorly such as during the first visit of that website. Have you searched online to find answers but when you find a website with the answer it requires you to login or have a membership account? That’s a clear tactic to convert a visitor to a member of that website.

How to show hidden text on websites