I wrote a small program that grabs HTML source code from a given page and prints it onscreen. But I noticed that one specific area (a hyperlink) of the source code didn't appear: the parts before it and immediately after it were there, but the code for the link itself was nowhere to be found.
Looking through the ORIGINAL source code (ie, View -> Source in my browser), I found that that link had a <span> tag wrapped around it. This <span> tag had the id attribute set to id='trackcode'.
Looking through the HTML for instances of the word "trackcode", I only found one, it was in a bit of incomprehensible JavaScript at the bottom of the page.
So my question is: was that a mechanism for preventing programs from "seeing" that link?
Looking through the ORIGINAL source code (ie, View -> Source in my browser), I found that that link had a <span> tag wrapped around it. This <span> tag had the id attribute set to id='trackcode'.
Looking through the HTML for instances of the word "trackcode", I only found one, it was in a bit of incomprehensible JavaScript at the bottom of the page.
So my question is: was that a mechanism for preventing programs from "seeing" that link?