Is there a way to look at a rendered website from within emacs?

Question

The documentation for a library I'm using comes as a bunch of html files mixied in with the source code. It would be nice not to have to switch programs when I want to look at the documentation.

Is there a way to view a rendered html file from within emacs?

possible duplicate of [Is there a graphic web browser that can used inside of emacs?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8785916/is-there-a-graphic-web-browser-that-can-used-inside-of-emacs) — phils, Jan 12 '12 at 03:00
As of Emacs 24.4 (not yet released), there is a built-in web browser: `M-x eww` (alias `M-x web`). That's an enhancement of the `shr` html rendering that's been in since 24.1, so you can make do with that in some situations; see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19632185/display-contents-of-remote-html-in-emacs — phils, Feb 22 '14 at 00:25

score 11 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 12 '12 at 01:05

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Yes. Several.

Man, I feel like this question should have been "what can't emacs do." and I'm a vi man even.

answered Jan 12 '12 at 01:05

tkone

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score 10 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 23 '15 at 16:41

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I had this same question, and neither of the answers is specific. For rendering, use shr.el (Simple HTML Renderer):

(load-library "shr.el")
(shr-render-buffer)

answered Oct 23 '15 at 16:41

tbc0

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Requires emacs to have been built with `libxml2`. – WilliamKF May 03 '19 at 19:10

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 21 '14 at 12:49

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You can do it using w3m web browser for emacs. But it is very slow redering is sychronous.

answered Feb 21 '14 at 12:49

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Is there a way to look at a rendered website from within emacs?

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