output/rendered text can not be seen in source code

Question

As all Facebook social plugins have this feature;

Your Facebook name can be seen on the web page but when you look up in the source code you can not see Facebook name.

So I need to know why and how?

This feature may be used in order to avoid plagiarism / text content parsers.

Example: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comments/

Name of Facebook users do not exist in source code.

Please kindly enlighten me in details thanks...

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:37

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Sure the names do exist, they're in the iFrame content. You can see the data coming to your browser on the network traffic tab of the developer tools.

answered Feb 06 '12 at 18:37

DMCS

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thanks. so using iframe may prevent us from the content thieves. – jwin27 Feb 06 '12 at 19:48
No it wont. You can get to it, I can get to it, your browser can get to it, anyone can get to it. – DMCS Feb 06 '12 at 21:01

output/rendered text can not be seen in source code

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