Simply browse to the webpage of your choice, and press the F12 key on your keyboard.

This opens the developer tools.

Now, choose any spot of the webpage in IE8 that you want to edit.

Edit Text in a Webpage with Internet Explorer 8

Here, lets edit the footer of Google.com.

In the developer tools window, the element you selected before is now highlighted.

hit the plus button beside that entry if the text you want to edit is not visible.

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Now, smack the text you wish to change, and enter what you wish in the box.

For fun, we changed the copyright to say 2010 Microsoft.

Go back to IE to see the changes on the page!

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It can also be useful when taking screenshots.

Here I changed my Gmail address to test@yahoo.com.

hey note that the changes will disappear when you reload the page.

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We have found this trick very helpful at times, and it can be very fun too!

Enjoy it, and let us know how you used it to help you!

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