The invention discloses a layered network topology visualizing method and system. The method comprises that 101) a browser canvas is divided into a background layer, a link layer, a node layer, a drag layer and a text layer, and the corresponding layers are rendered according to the data types; and 102) during graphical element rendering in the different layers, background, link, node and words in topology data are described and represented as graphical elements of a browser, and corresponding interaction events are registered for the graphical elements via a scripting language. Concretely, in the link layer, according to the relative positions of a source node and an end node of a link, the origin and the terminal of the link are calculated, the link is represented as line elements in a page, and a network link is rendered via lining functions of the line elements on the page; and in the drag layer, a node is dragged and dropped to change the relative position of a topology element, and when the corresponding node is dragged, the drag element and other related elements are redrawn in the layer.