Know When a Web Page Was Last Updated

Published: August 1, 2002

Submitted by Kelly Theriot, Windows XP MVP, Gray, Louisiana

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Would you like to know when a specific Web page was last updated? If you use Microsoft Internet Explorer, you can easily determine when a page was updated last.

1.

Navigate to the page you want to check.

2.

In the Address Bar, type: javascript:alert(document.lastModified) 

3.

Press Enter.

A message box displays the date and time of the last update. Note that you must enter the line exactly as shown above.