The View Menu lets you not only view the page you are working in Browser but also gives you other useful information about links to that page and debugging options. In addition you can use the View Menu to show or hide other windows like Project Explorer, Properties Window, Toolbox etc.

The View Menu looks something like the one below

Open and Open With let you open a page either using either of the editors we talked about in the Edit Mode. If you choose the Source Code Edit you will see all the HTML tags plus the text. If you choose the HTML editor, you will see the text only. I prefer to work in the HTML editor as it is WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get).

View in Browser and Browser with let you see the current document in your choice of web browser. If you have Netscape installed on your machine you can either select that or Internet Explorer to see the document. In the figure below, we can see the BCP.htm document in Internet Explorer

View Links and Broken Links Report are a handy tool that I use quite a bit. When you are working on a website like this one, it gets complicated to keep track of your web pages and also the links that they point to. These two options are a life saver for that problem. View Links lets you see graphically all the pages the current document is linked too. Broken links report does a detailed analysis on the website and gives you a report on any links that are not functional. You can look at a sample report below

The next set of options under the View Menu is self explanatory. The Project Explorer is the window on the right side that keeps track of all the files relating to project. The Properties Window is the one below the Project Explorer window and shows the details on any control on the page. The Toolbox window is the one on the left and shows the controls like Textbox, Checkbox, etc. Debug and Other windows let you add new functionality to the current document. Lets say you are running a script and would like to check the code. Debug window will come in hand for that.

In addition, you can add toolbars to the top if you desire. For example in the figure below, I add the Design toolbar to the IDE environment.