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  • + Use DevTools in another language + The settings panel in Edge showing a checkbox to match DevTools with the browser language. +
    + If you want to use DevTools in another language than English, you can do it across all major browsers. +In Firefox, DevTools will always match the language of the browser, so if you downloaded Firefox... + Read more +
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  • - Use DevTools in another language - The settings panel in Edge showing a checkbox to match DevTools with the browser language. +
  • + Unminify JavaScript code to easily read and debug it + The Sources panel in Chrome, showing the pretty-print button.
    - If you want to use DevTools in another language than English, you can do it across all major browsers. -In Firefox, DevTools will always match the language of the browser, so if you downloaded Firefox... - Read more + Sometimes, the JavaScript code that runs on a website is minified and really hard to read. This is common in production. +You can unminify code in DevTools to read it more easily, and also set breakpoi... + Read more
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  • - Detect the element with focus at any time - Animation showing a web page with focus going through different element, and the Edge Console panel with the live expression showing a preview of the focused element. +
  • + Throttle the network speed to test your website on slower connections + The Network panel in Edge showing the network throttling drop-down.
    - If you want to know which element has the focus on the web page at any time, you can use a live expression in the Console tool. -Open the Console. -Click the Create live expression button (it looks lik... - Read more + While you may develop your website on a fast network connection at home or at work, your users may not be able to use it with an equally fast connection. Perhaps they're in a moving car, or on the sub... + Read more
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  • + Detect the element with focus at any time + Animation showing a web page with focus going through different element, and the Edge Console panel with the live expression showing a preview of the focused element.
    - While you may develop your website on a fast network connection at home or at work, your users may not be able to use it with an equally fast connection. Perhaps they're in a moving car, or on the sub... - Read more + If you want to know which element has the focus on the web page at any time, you can use a live expression in the Console tool. +Open the Console. +Click the Create live expression button (it looks lik... + Read more
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  • - Take screenshots of your site in a device frame - Screenshot of the devtoolstips.org website in an iPhone frame +
  • + Take high-resolution screenshots of web pages + Firefox, with DevTools opened, and the Console tool visible, showing that :screenshot command
    - Taking a photo of a mobile device or tablet is daunting as you have to deal with fingerprints, glare and focus issues. Using Device Emulation makes this a lot easier. -To take a screenshot of a web pa... - Read more + Taking screenshots of all or parts of web pages is super useful (scroll down to the See Also part at the bottom of this page for more tips on that). But sometimes, the resulting screenshots aren't hig... + Read more
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  • - Store a node as a variable to use it in the console - Firefox's "use in console" context menu option in the Inspector, and also showing the Console with a couple of tempN variables. +
  • + Quickly spot out-of-viewport elements + Edge DevTools showing the Elements tool at the top with the DOM tree and the 3D View tool at the bottom, showing a 3D render of the page, with most elements in the same rectangle, and 2 smaller elements outside of the main rectangle.
    - If you want to use a DOM node from the page in the console: -Right-click the node in the Elements (or Inspector in Firefox). -Click on Store as global variable (or Use in Console in Firefox). -The Cons... - Read more + Sometimes, either by accident or on purpose, HTML elements end up outside of the visible browser viewport. When they do, it can be really hard to find them in DevTools. Indeed, the DOM tree in the Ele... + Read more
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  • + Simulate a different latitude/longitude geolocation + Chrome, showing Google in Portuguese, with DevTools opened to the side and the Sensors tool showing that the geolocation was set to São Paulo. +
    + If your website has features that depend on the geographic location of your users, you can test these features by simulating different geolocations right from DevTools! +Chrome and Edge DevTools have a... + Read more +
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  • + Show web vitals + The web vitals tooltip in Polypane showing a good CLS, LCP and FCP score and a FID score that needs improvement.
    - If your website has features that depend on the geographic location of your users, you can test these features by simulating different geolocations right from DevTools! -Chrome and Edge DevTools have a... - Read more + Web vitals are a set of metrics that help you determine how well-built your page is. You can learn more about them here. These scores can be obtained with various online checks like PageSpeed Insights... + Read more
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  • + Select elements with pointer-events:none by holding Shift + Animation showing how a pointer-events:none element normally can't be selected, except when Shift is pressed.
    - The size of the viewport that's used to render a webpage in a browser can be very important at times, such as when creating or debugging media queries. -You can easily know what the current size of the... - Read more + When selecting elements from the page they normally get highlighted on hover and selected on click. However certain elements can't be selected. +Indeed, if an element does not react to pointer events b... + Read more
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  • + See network request paths instead of names in the Network tool + The Network tool in Edge, showing the contextual menu that's used to customize the network list columns
    - When selecting elements from the page they normally get highlighted on hover and selected on click. However certain elements can't be selected. -Indeed, if an element does not react to pointer events b... - Read more + By default, the Network tool displays the name of each requested resource. For example, if a webpage requests an image from https://mysite.com/assets/img/image.png then the tool only displays image.pn... + Read more
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    - By default, the Network tool displays the name of each requested resource. For example, if a webpage requests an image from https://mysite.com/assets/img/image.png then the tool only displays image.pn... - Read more + The size of the viewport that's used to render a webpage in a browser can be very important at times, such as when creating or debugging media queries. +You can easily know what the current size of the... + Read more
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  • + See the accessibility tree + The Accessibility tool in Firefox, showing the accessibility tree
    - If the inspected web page is long with a lot of elements, and its DOM tree is big and complex, it's easy to get lost, not knowing where the selected element is in the page. -DevTools has got your back... - Read more + The accessibility tree is a representation of the structure of a web page that is used by assistive technologies such as screen readers. It is similar to the DOM tree, but it only includes the element... + Read more
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    - Being able to sample colors from the page is super useful. Firefox, Edge and Chrome all allow you to do this in 2 different ways: -In Firefox it's really simple and doesn't even require opening DevToo... - Read more + If the inspected web page is long with a lot of elements, and its DOM tree is big and complex, it's easy to get lost, not knowing where the selected element is in the page. +DevTools has got your back... + Read more
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  • + Remove annoying page overlays and other elements + Animation showing the whole flow from selecting the element with the inspect tool and pressing delete, resulting in the element disappearing from the page.
    - Zee shared a great tip on Twitter if you are working with React and have the React DevTools extension installed. -You can use $r in the Console tool to reference the currently selected element in the R... - Read more + A lot of websites these days get covered with overlays and crammed with lots of ads and other things that make it hard to just read the content of the page. +To get rid of an annoying overlay, or any o... + Read more
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    - A lot of websites these days get covered with overlays and crammed with lots of ads and other things that make it hard to just read the content of the page. -To get rid of an annoying overlay, or any o... - Read more + Zee shared a great tip on Twitter if you are working with React and have the React DevTools extension installed. +You can use $r in the Console tool to reference the currently selected element in the R... + Read more
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  • + Start your HTML and CSS prototypes in the browser directly + Edge , with a tab opened on the HTML data-url, and DevTools opened showing the Elements and Sources panels with local changes made.
    - $ and $$ are 2 functions you can use in the console to find elements in the page. -They are essentially shortcuts to the longer document.querySelector() and document.querySelectorAll() functions, but $... - Read more + Sometimes I need a blank canvas to prototype an idea with HTML and CSS. Something outside of the website I'm working on. Maybe I need a new layout or component and I'm not sure yet how to do it. +In th... + Read more
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  • + Paste multiple CSS declarations at once + Animation showing how pasting several declarations in a CSS rule in DevTools creates them all.
    - Sometimes I need a blank canvas to prototype an idea with HTML and CSS. Something outside of the website I'm working on. Maybe I need a new layout or component and I'm not sure yet how to do it. -In th... - Read more + You know how you can paste a CSS property name or value in the Styles (or Rules) panel? Well, you can actually paste several declarations at once too! +For example, try copying the following entire CSS... + Read more
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  • + Take a screenshot of a single node + Animation showing taking a node screenshot in Firefox.
    - By default, the messages displayed in the console get removed as soon as you refresh the page (or navigate to a new page). If you want to keep those messages as long as DevTools is open, follow these... - Read more + In Firefox, Chrome, Polypane and Edge DevTools, you can screenshot a single node from the page. +Go to the Elements panel (or Inspector panel in Firefox). +Right-click on the node you want to screensho... + Read more
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    - You know how you can paste a CSS property name or value in the Styles (or Rules) panel? Well, you can actually paste several declarations at once too! -For example, try copying the following entire CSS... - Read more + Moving panels around the user interface can be very useful to make DevTools more unique to you and adapted to your needs. +There are 2 ways that you can re-arrange panels in DevTools today: dragging th... + Read more
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  • + Manipulate global objects on page load, before other scripts run + The Sources tab in Safari's WebInspector, showing the Add resource button and the Bootstrap script type
    - "What font is that?" or "Why is this font used?" are probably questions you've asked yourself while working on a website design. -However, it's not always easy to know which fonts a... - Read more + When a page loads, and all of its global objects are ready, but before the JavaScript code of the page actually kicks-in, is a great time to inject debugging code. For example, it might be useful to r... + Read more
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  • + Cut down on console noise using live expressions + The eye button in DevTools
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    - Using the Console of DevTools to log information that changes a lot is a bad idea. First of all, you flood it with information. Secondly, it can impact the performance of your product. And last but no... - Read more + "What font is that?" or "Why is this font used?" are probably questions you've asked yourself while working on a website design. +However, it's not always easy to know which fonts a... + Read more
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  • + List all event listeners on the entire page + Chrome, with the devtoolstips.org website loaded, and the DevTools Console on the side, showing the result of the above script
    - You've probably already used console.log() in your code to print debugging values to the Console tool in DevTools. But the console namespace actually has many other functions too! -To list them all, op... - Read more + When you don't know a codebase, it might be hard to know where to get started, and what events are being listened to by which elements. +The Console tool, in Chromium-based browsers, comes with a nice... + Read more
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    - When you don't know a codebase, it might be hard to know where to get started, and what events are being listened to by which elements. -The Console tool, in Chromium-based browsers, comes with a nice... - Read more + You've probably already used console.log() in your code to print debugging values to the Console tool in DevTools. But the console namespace actually has many other functions too! +To list them all, op... + Read more
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    - Browsers often add elements to the DOM of your web pages on top of the ones you, yourself, defined. For example, when you create a <video> element, the browser creates a bunch of nested DOM node... - Read more + CSS custom properties (also called variables) are very useful to avoid repeating values in CSS, like colors for example. +You can define and use a custom property as shown below: +rule-1 { --my-main-co... + Read more
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    - CSS custom properties (also called variables) are very useful to avoid repeating values in CSS, like colors for example. -You can define and use a custom property as shown below: -rule-1 { --my-main-co... - Read more + Browsers often add elements to the DOM of your web pages on top of the ones you, yourself, defined. For example, when you create a <video> element, the browser creates a bunch of nested DOM node... + Read more
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    - How do certain CSS properties apply to the page isn't always an easy question to answer. -While some properties might be considered simple, others have complex effects that depend on other factors. Pro... - Read more + When you select an element in DevTools (in the Elements or Inspector tool), you see the CSS rules that apply to it. But, these rules can also apply to other elements in the page than the currently sel... + Read more
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    - If you want to hide scripts and other resources loaded by browser extensions in the Network panel, use the -scheme:chrome-extension pattern in the filter input box. -Credits go to Sunil for his post on... - Read more + How do certain CSS properties apply to the page isn't always an easy question to answer. +While some properties might be considered simple, others have complex effects that depend on other factors. Pro... + Read more
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  • + Hide or pin the information tooltip while inspecting page elements + Chrome, with a webpage and DevTools opened to the side. The inspect mode is on, the mouse is hovering an element in the webpage, which is highlighted, but the information tooltip is not displayed.
    - When you select an element in DevTools (in the Elements or Inspector tool), you see the CSS rules that apply to it. But, these rules can also apply to other elements in the page than the currently sel... - Read more + When selecting elements from the page using the inspect tool, the hovered elements get highlighted, and an information tooltip follows your mouse around and gives you information about the hovered ele... + Read more
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    + In Polypane you can right-click any form on the page and select Autofill form to add dummy values to all input elements. This prevents you from having to go field-by-field to fill in all required fiel... + Read more +
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    - Sometimes we write CSS code that's entirely valid but has absolutely no effect at all, and this can be frustrating. -Indeed, there are many cases where a CSS declaration has no effect on an element. On... - Read more + In CSS, the cascade plays a very important role in which CSS properties apply to an element. This key concept is not explained here, but you can learn more on MDN, at Cascade, specificity, and inherit... + Read more
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    - Note: If you think your memory leak comes from DOM nodes, you can also use the Detached Elements tool in Edge, see Get detached DOM elements to investigate memory leaks. -Memory leaks are hard to find... - Read more + Here is the scenario: you know there's a specific style that applies to an HTML element in your web page, say some padding, but you can't seem to find where, in the CSS code, that style is coming from... + Read more
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    - Here is the scenario: you know there's a specific style that applies to an HTML element in your web page, say some padding, but you can't seem to find where, in the CSS code, that style is coming from... - Read more + Note: If you think your memory leak comes from DOM nodes, you can also use the Detached Elements tool in Edge, see Get detached DOM elements to investigate memory leaks. +Memory leaks are hard to find... + Read more
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    - When it comes to improving web rendering performance, we often spend time working on JavaScript code. But CSS has an important role to play too in how fast a web page renders. CSS selectors, in partic... - Read more + Sometimes we write CSS code that's entirely valid but has absolutely no effect at all, and this can be frustrating. +Indeed, there are many cases where a CSS declaration has no effect on an element. On... + Read more
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    - Let's say you want to list all of the elements on a page that are absolutely positioned. Or maybe you want to find all of the elements that use CSS grid. How would you do that? -One way is to run a few... - Read more + The Network panel lets you filter requests by status code, or mime type, and more. +Click in the filter input field in the toolbar. +Start typing status-code, you should see an autocomplete popup letti... + Read more
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    - The Network panel lets you filter requests by status code, or mime type, and more. -Click in the filter input field in the toolbar. -Start typing status-code, you should see an autocomplete popup letti... - Read more + Let's say you want to list all of the elements on a page that are absolutely positioned. Or maybe you want to find all of the elements that use CSS grid. How would you do that? +One way is to run a few... + Read more
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    - There is a command menu in Edge and Chrome that allows you to quickly access many different features of DevTools without having to navigate the UI. -Press Ctrl+Shift+P on Windows or Linux (or Cmd+Shift... - Read more + You can expand all descendants under a given DOM node in one go, to avoid having to expand each node one by one, which may take a while. +In Chrome and Edge +Right-click on the node you want to expand... + Read more
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    - Unlike other browsers, Safari hides its DevTools (and other developer-related features) by default. That's actually good because 99% of the people using the browser are probably not web developers. -If... - Read more + The Idle Detection API is useful for web developers to detect when the user isn't interacting with their device. This can be useful for chat applications, for example, to mark the user as away. +Note:... + Read more
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    - The Idle Detection API is useful for web developers to detect when the user isn't interacting with their device. This can be useful for chat applications, for example, to mark the user as away. -Note:... - Read more + Unlike other browsers, Safari hides its DevTools (and other developer-related features) by default. That's actually good because 99% of the people using the browser are probably not web developers. +If... + Read more
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  • + Empty the cache and hard refresh + The Microsoft Edge browser toolbar, showing the contextual menu of the refresh button, with the empty cache and hard refresh menu item.
    - In CSS, you can use the prefers-color-scheme media feature (docs) to detect if the user prefers using a light or a dark theme in their operating system. This is useful to style your website in a way t... - Read more + Here is a nice tip to quickly empty your cache and refresh the page, in order to test new code changes: +In Chrome, or Edge, open DevTools (F12). This step is not needed for Polypane. +Right-click on t... + Read more
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  • + Edit CSS absolute and relative positions by dragging points in the page + Animation of the geometry editor in Firefox, toggling it from the Layout panel, and then dragging top and left points to move the element in the page.
    - Here is a nice tip to quickly empty your cache and refresh the page, in order to test new code changes: -In Chrome, or Edge, open DevTools (F12). This step is not needed for Polypane. -Right-click on t... - Read more + Firefox features a position editor that lets you move elements in the page by drag and drop. This works with elements that are positioned in CSS with position:relative or position:absolute and that ha... + Read more
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    + The clip-path property is a great way to change the final shape of an element and give it the shape that you want. +You can use this property to make an element be a circle, an ellipse, a polygon or an... + Read more +
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  • + Download all images from the page + The Snippets panel in Edge, with the JS code from above, and the download panel open showing all images have been downloaded
    - The clip-path property is a great way to change the final shape of an element and give it the shape that you want. -You can use this property to make an element be a circle, an ellipse, a polygon or an... - Read more + If you want to download all of the images on a webpage in one go, you can use the following few lines of JavaScript code to do it: +$$('img').forEach(async (img) => { try { const src = img.src;... + Read more
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  • + Display the current framerate of your webpage + Chrome, with the FPS meter in the webpage, and DevTools opened to the side, showing the FPS command in the Command Menu
    - When you're investigating a bug where the backend you connect to doesn't respond with the right things it's useful to tweak the requests and try again quickly. You can do this by changing your fronten... - Read more + For a super smooth user experience on your website or app, it's better if the browser manages to render your page at a high framerate. Ideally, this rate should be 60 frames per second (FPS). This giv... + Read more
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    - Have you ever been frustrated because you couldn't style a popup or tooltip that appeared on hover? If it uses JavaScript to get displayed, it's hard to style without modifying the code to make it sta... - Read more + As described in Debug popups that appear on hover using JS and in Debug popups that appear on hover using the debugger statement, there are ways to debug popups that appear on hover using JavaScript.... + Read more
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    - In Debug popups that appear on hover using JS we described how to pause the debugger to inspect popups that appear on hover and disappear as soon as the cursor moves away. -Here's another way to do thi... - Read more + Have you ever been frustrated because you couldn't style a popup or tooltip that appeared on hover? If it uses JavaScript to get displayed, it's hard to style without modifying the code to make it sta... + Read more
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    - A really useful way to position elements on a CSS grid is using the grid-template-areas property. With it, you can give names to various areas of your grid (potentially spanning multiple cells), and t... - Read more + In Debug popups that appear on hover using JS we described how to pause the debugger to inspect popups that appear on hover and disappear as soon as the cursor moves away. +Here's another way to do thi... + Read more
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    - DevTools comes with tons of keyboard shortcuts. Some are well known (like F12 to open DevTools), but there are many others which you might not be familiar with, and which could make your life easier.... - Read more + A really useful way to position elements on a CSS grid is using the grid-template-areas property. With it, you can give names to various areas of your grid (potentially spanning multiple cells), and t... + Read more
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    - The console.table method is great for displaying tabular data in the console, but what if the objects your're logging contain a lot of properties, causing a lot of columns to appear in the console? -Fo... - Read more + DevTools comes with tons of keyboard shortcuts. Some are well known (like F12 to open DevTools), but there are many others which you might not be familiar with, and which could make your life easier.... + Read more
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    - On the web, when a client (a browser) and a server communicate using HTTP, the requests and responses they send to each other contain headers. These headers are key/value pairs that contain metadata a... - Read more + The console.table method is great for displaying tabular data in the console, but what if the objects your're logging contain a lot of properties, causing a lot of columns to appear in the console? +Fo... + Read more
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    - Do you use a CSS-in-JS framework? If so, you know how frustrating it can be to copy CSS from DevTools and paste it into your code. -Indeed if the CSS you worked on in the Styles panel looks like this:... - Read more + On the web, when a client (a browser) and a server communicate using HTTP, the requests and responses they send to each other contain headers. These headers are key/value pairs that contain metadata a... + Read more
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    - The console panel supports a very handy copy() function that stringifies and copies anything you pass to it as an argument, so you can then paste it somewhere else. -For example: copy($$('a').map(a =&g... - Read more + Do you use a CSS-in-JS framework? If so, you know how frustrating it can be to copy CSS from DevTools and paste it into your code. +Indeed if the CSS you worked on in the Styles panel looks like this:... + Read more
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    - JavaScript often needs references to DOM nodes on the page. Getting a reference is sometimes easy with document.getElementById() or similar. Other times however, a more complicated CSS selector needs... - Read more + The console panel supports a very handy copy() function that stringifies and copies anything you pass to it as an argument, so you can then paste it somewhere else. +For example: copy($$('a').map(a =&g... + Read more
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    - A data URL is a URL that starts with the prefix data: instead of http: or https:. This data prefix (or scheme) allows you to embed the actual content of the resource in the URL itself, rather than lin... - Read more + JavaScript often needs references to DOM nodes on the page. Getting a reference is sometimes easy with document.getElementById() or similar. Other times however, a more complicated CSS selector needs... + Read more
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    - You can simulate various different devices from DevTools, to get an idea of how your webpage might render on those devices (note that this is only a simulation, the tool only changes the screen dimens... - Read more + A data URL is a URL that starts with the prefix data: instead of http: or https:. This data prefix (or scheme) allows you to embed the actual content of the resource in the URL itself, rather than lin... + Read more
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  • + Capture node creation stack traces + Edge DevTools' Elements panel with the Stack Trace sidebar visible, showing a stack of Vue JS function calls that created an element on the TODOMVC sample app.
    - Imagine you evaluate a long expression like $$('*').map(el => Object.values(el.attributes).map(attr => {return {name: attr.name, value: attr.value}})) which extracts the attributes from all of t... - Read more + Have you ever wanted to know what caused a specific DOM node or element to be created in the page? +When working on a site that uses a lot of JavaScript and especially when you don't know the codebase,... + Read more
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  • - Capture node creation stack traces - Edge DevTools' Elements panel with the Stack Trace sidebar visible, showing a stack of Vue JS function calls that created an element on the TODOMVC sample app. +
  • + Automatically logging name and value in console.log() + Animation showing the different ways the variables are logged with and without curly braces.
    - Have you ever wanted to know what caused a specific DOM node or element to be created in the page? -When working on a site that uses a lot of JavaScript and especially when you don't know the codebase,... - Read more + Using the console of DevTools you can to log some information to debug your JavaScript. +The common way to do that is to add a console.log() statement where you want to learn the value of a certain var... + Read more
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