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  • Visualize the screen reader order for elements within the page The source order viewer in Microsoft Edge, showing numbered boxes around elements. @@ -248,29 +225,25 @@

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  • - View console logs from non-Safari browsers on an iPhone - Edge on iOS, showing the about:inspect page, filled with logs +
  • + Visualize the effect of CSS transforms + Animation showing how the CSS transform highlighter appears on the page when hovering over a transform CSS property in the Rules panel.
    - Using the about:inspect special page you can see your website's logs in Chrome or Edge running on iPhone! -This is important because debugging a webpage that's running in Safari on an iPhone isn't hard... - Read more + CSS transforms can sometimes be hard to wrap your head around, especially when chaining multiple transformations. +Firefox helps with a cool visualization tool that allows you to see how and where the... + Read more
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  • - Re-use scripts as snippets - The snippets editor in the Sources tool with a snippet open in the editor. +
  • + View console logs from non-Safari browsers on an iPhone + Edge on iOS, showing the about:inspect page, filled with logs
    - The Console is great to write short JavaScript expressions that read from the document or manipulate it. But it's also a terrible editor. -You can actually use a full editor in Edge, Chrome, and Safari... - Read more + Using the about:inspect special page you can see your website's logs in Chrome or Edge running on iPhone! +This is important because debugging a webpage that's running in Safari on an iPhone isn't hard... + Read more
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  • - Use full browser window for device emulation - Animation showing device emulation and how to undock the Developer Tools into an own window. +
  • + Re-use scripts as snippets + The snippets editor in the Sources tool with a snippet open in the editor.
    - Emulating different devices in the browser is incredibly useful. It gets tricky when you are on a device with limited resolution as the emulated device needs to be zoomed down to fit the screen as a l... - Read more + The Console is great to write short JavaScript expressions that read from the document or manipulate it. But it's also a terrible editor. +You can actually use a full editor in Edge, Chrome, and Safari... + Read more
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  • - Use document.designMode to spell check your webpage - Edge, with DevTools opened on the side. The designMode trick was used in the Console, and the webpage shows a lot of red squiggly lines +
  • + Access results from recent Console evaluations + The Console in Firefox DevTools showing how using $_ refers to the previous Console result
    - Amelia Bellamy-Royds shared a really cool tip to spell-check a webpage's content from DevTools: -Open DevTools, and go to the Console tool. -Type document.designMode = "on" and press Enter. -C... - Read more + 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
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  • - Use DevTools in another language - The settings panel in Edge showing a checkbox to match DevTools with the browser language. +
  • + Use full browser window for device emulation + Animation showing device emulation and how to undock the Developer Tools into an own window.
    - 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 + Emulating different devices in the browser is incredibly useful. It gets tricky when you are on a device with limited resolution as the emulated device needs to be zoomed down to fit the screen as a l... + Read more
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  • + Use document.designMode to spell check your webpage + Edge, with DevTools opened on the side. The designMode trick was used in the Console, and the webpage shows a lot of red squiggly lines +
    + Amelia Bellamy-Royds shared a really cool tip to spell-check a webpage's content from DevTools: +Open DevTools, and go to the Console tool. +Type document.designMode = "on" and press Enter. +C... + Read more +
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  • + Understand flexbox item sizing + Firefox, with the DevTools Inspector tool opened, showing the Layout sidebar that contains the flex item diagram. +
    + Flexbox is a great way to easily distribute elements and empty space in a row or a column, and create interesting layouts. +It only takes a couple of CSS properties to create nice layouts that automati... + Read more +
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  • + Test your PWA protocol handlers + Microsoft Edge, with the Application tool opened on the side, showing the Protocol Handlers section.
    - Flexbox is a great way to easily distribute elements and empty space in a row or a column, and create interesting layouts. -It only takes a couple of CSS properties to create nice layouts that automati... - Read more + Progressive Web Apps (PWA) can register themselves to handle URIs with pre-defined or custom protocols (such as mailto, geo, or web+foo). This is a great capability that makes it possible for installe... + Read more
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  • - Throttle the network speed to test your website on slower connections - The Network panel in Edge showing the network throttling drop-down. +
  • + Throttle your CPU + The Performance tool in Chrome showing the CPU throttling drop-down.
    - 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 + Your development machine is very likely much more powerful than the devices your users have (which are probably low-end mobile devices). +Before you ship your new app or site, thinking that it will run... + Read more
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    - This is not really a tip, but rather an interesting thing to be aware of when debugging JavaScript. -If you use breakpoints in the Sources (or Debugger) tab in DevTools to debug JavaScript, you should... - Read more -
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  • - Throttle your CPU - The Performance tool in Chrome showing the CPU throttling drop-down. +
  • + Throttle the network speed to test your website on slower connections + The Network panel in Edge showing the network throttling drop-down.
    - Your development machine is very likely much more powerful than the devices your users have (which are probably low-end mobile devices). -Before you ship your new app or site, thinking that it will run... - 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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  • - 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. +
  • + 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.
    - 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 + 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
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  • + Event listeners are suppressed when paused + A page in edge with the DevTools Sources paused at a location, and the on-page overlay preventing access to the page. +
    + This is not really a tip, but rather an interesting thing to be aware of when debugging JavaScript. +If you use breakpoints in the Sources (or Debugger) tab in DevTools to debug JavaScript, you should... + Read more +
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  • + 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 color vision deficiencies - The color vision simulation drop-down in Firefox. -
    - People who visit your web pages may have different types of color vision deficiencies that, if you incorrectly use colors for meaning, may affect their experience. -Firefox, Chrome, Polypane and Edge m... - 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. @@ -1130,6 +1100,40 @@

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    + People who visit your web pages may have different types of color vision deficiencies that, if you incorrectly use colors for meaning, may affect their experience. +Firefox, Chrome, Polypane and Edge m... + Read more +
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  • Send feedback, ask for features and report bugs A feedback illustration showing a stick figure with a speech bubble @@ -1224,20 +1228,19 @@

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  • - See the viewport size - Chrome, with DevTools opened, the viewport size overlay appears in the rendered webpage +
  • + See the page in 3D + The 3D view tool showing a page's z-index stacking tree as a 3d scene.
    - 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 + See your page in 3 dimensions to quickly find out how deeply nested it is, fix z-index stacking issues, and performance issues. +In Edge # +Open the Command Menu by pressing ctrl+shift+P (or cmd+shift+... + Read more
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  • - See quick accessibility information on hover - Animation of the a11y tooltip in chrome. +
  • + 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
    - In Edge, Polypane and Chrome, whenever you use the element selector and hover over elements in the page, a tooltip appears with, among other things, some accessibility information about the hovered el... - 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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  • + See quick accessibility information on hover + Animation of the a11y tooltip in chrome.
    - 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 + In Edge, Polypane and Chrome, whenever you use the element selector and hover over elements in the page, a tooltip appears with, among other things, some accessibility information about the hovered el... + Read more
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  • + See the accessibility tree + The Accessibility tool in Firefox, showing the accessibility tree
    - See your page in 3 dimensions to quickly find out how deeply nested it is, fix z-index stacking issues, and performance issues. -In Edge # -Open the Command Menu by pressing ctrl+shift+P (or cmd+shift+... - 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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  • + Take a screenshot of part of a webpage from the Command Menu + Edge, with DevTools opened, and the Command menu showing the list of screenshot commands
    - 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 + The Command menu in Edge and Chrome is a great way to do many of the things you can do in DevTools without having to navigate the UI. +Csaba Kissi shared a great tip on Twitter about the Command menu:... + Read more
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  • - Take a screenshot of part of a webpage from the Command Menu - Edge, with DevTools opened, and the Command menu showing the list of screenshot commands +
  • + Replay a XHR request + Chrome's Network tool, with the Replay XHR contextual menu item
    - The Command menu in Edge and Chrome is a great way to do many of the things you can do in DevTools without having to navigate the UI. -Csaba Kissi shared a great tip on Twitter about the Command menu:... - Read more + When you're debugging an XHR request to a backend service that doesn't respond with the right things it can be useful to send the request over and over again. Reloading the entire page to do so is ted... + Read more
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    - Sometimes, you need to repeatedly test the same user scenario on a website. This can happen when working on a fix or a performance improvement. Testing the same user scenario over and over again requi... - Read more -
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    + Sometimes, you need to repeatedly test the same user scenario on a website. This can happen when working on a fix or a performance improvement. Testing the same user scenario over and over again requi... + Read more +
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  • Find DOM elements from the console Firefox's console panel, showing 3 different examples of using the $ and $$ built-in console functions. @@ -1752,39 +1756,26 @@

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  • + Play a sound when a line of JavaScript is executed + Animation showing how to add the audio breakpoint in Safari Web Inspector.
    - When working with the CSS of a webpage, from the Elements or Inspector tool, in DevTools, there may be times when you want to reuse a existing color from the webpage, or from the screen, but might not... - Read more + Sometimes pausing execution when a line of JavaScript is executed is too much, sometimes you only want to know that the line was executed at all, not pause there. +To do this you can add console.log()... + Read more
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  • + Pick a color from the webpage, or the screen + The Eye Dropper tool in Firefox, copying a color from the webpage
    - Sometimes pausing execution when a line of JavaScript is executed is too much, sometimes you only want to know that the line was executed at all, not pause there. -To do this you can add console.log()... - Read more + When working with the CSS of a webpage, from the Elements or Inspector tool, in DevTools, there may be times when you want to reuse a existing color from the webpage, or from the screen, but might not... + Read more
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  • + Persist console messages across page navigations and reloads + Edge devtools' console showing the settings panel at the top, with the "perserve log" box checked. +
    + 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 +
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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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  • + Name evaluated files with the sourceURL pragma + Firefox DevTools, the sourceURL pragma was used when evaluating some code in the Console, and a new file now appears in the Debugger tool, named after the string provided in the sourceURL pragma
    - 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 + If you insert JavaScript code in a webpage by using the eval() function, or inline <script> tags, you can use the sourceURL pragma to give them a name in DevTools. +For example, when using eval()... + Read more
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  • + Monitor all events dispatched on an element + Animation showing how events get automatically logged when using the monitorEvents function.
    - If you insert JavaScript code in a webpage by using the eval() function, or inline <script> tags, you can use the sourceURL pragma to give them a name in DevTools. -For example, when using eval()... - Read more + You can use the monitorEvents global function in the Console panel to log all of the events dispatched on a particular element. +Select an element in the Elements panel. +Go to the Console. +Type monito... + Read more
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  • - List all supported console functions - Chrome, with the Console panel opened on the side in DevTools, showing the command result, which is an object containing a list of functions such as assert, clear, debug. +
  • + Manipulate complex JSON files using DevTools + VSCode with some JSON data and DevTools next to it with the snippets panel containing JS code to manipulate the JSON.
    - 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 + I often work with large amount of data that I need to go through and gather interesting information from. Sometimes this data is in JSON format. When that's the case, I like using DevTools to turn it... + 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
    - I often work with large amount of data that I need to go through and gather interesting information from. Sometimes this data is in JSON format. When that's the case, I like using DevTools to turn it... - 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
    - 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 + 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
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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 + 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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  • - Jump from a label `for` attribute to the linked input (and more) - Animation showing the Firefox DevTools Inspector panel, the mouse clicks the for attribute of a label element and the selection jumps to the related input element. +
  • + Jump from a CSS variable usage to where it is defined + Animation of clicking on a custom property link in the Styles panel in Edge.
    - In Firefox, you can jump from an element that references the ID attribute of an other element, to that other element, by Cmd+clicking (or Ctrl+clicking) the attribute. -Here is a common example for whe... - 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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  • Inspect the user-agent DOM The Elements tool in Chrome, an input type=range is expanded, showing it's internal user-agent shadow dom @@ -2403,28 +2434,34 @@

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  • + Inspect DevTools with DevTools + Two Chrome DevTools windows, the first one inspects a webpage, the second one inspects the first one
    - 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 + The user interface of DevTools is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This means you can inspect and debug DevTools with DevTools. +Chromium # +To debug DevTools in Chromium-based browsers, such as Ch... + Read more
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  • + Inspect CSS animations + Animation of Chrome DevTools showing how to inspect and modify CSS animations using the Animation inspector.
    - The user interface of DevTools is built with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. This means you can inspect and debug DevTools with DevTools. -Chromium # -To debug DevTools in Chromium-based browsers, such as Ch... - Read more + Modern browser DevTools provide a handy tool to inspect and modify CSS animations, CSS transitions, and Web animations. These tools not only help you debug animations, but also let you modify the vari... + Read more
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  • + Easily change CSS number values from the keyboard in increments of 0.1, 1, 10, 100 + Animation of the Styles panel in Edge showing how numbers can be changed in various increments.
    - Debugging JavaScript can quickly get out of hand when you have a lot of code and many functions that call each other. -What's even worse is when a lot of this code isn't even yours. This can happen whe... - Read more + When playing with styling or layout code in DevTools, it's useful to be able to change widths, margins, and other CSS number values quickly. +Manually entering new numbers works of course, but it gets... + Read more
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    - Modern browser DevTools provide a handy tool to inspect and modify CSS animations, CSS transitions, and Web animations. These tools not only help you debug animations, but also let you modify the vari... - 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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    - 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 + To know how much data your website transfers between the server and the client to display images, or scripts, or anything else: +Open the Network tool. +Refresh the page to make sure the list of req... + 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 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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    - To know how much data your website transfers between the server and the client to display images, or scripts, or anything else: -Open the Network tool. -Refresh the page to make sure the list of req... - Read more + 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
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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 + If you type $0 in the Console tool, in any browser, the currently selected DOM node is returned. This is very handy. To learn more, check Get the selected element in the console. +On top of this, in Ed... + 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 + When using breakpoints to debug your JavaScript code, sometimes you end up setting many breakpoints in different functions. You might want to keep these breakpoints but not always pause at them. +There... + 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 + With HTML, you can add alternative text to images using the alt attribute. It can be used to add a text description to images, which is extremely useful for accessibility as some people may not be abl... + 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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    - If you don't remember the CSS syntax for the box-shadow property (and who does!), then Chrome and Edge can help you with their visual shadow editor! -Select an element that has some shadow applied. -Go... - 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 specificity of a CSS selector is a score that the browser computes based on the different parts of the selector. It is used to determine which CSS rule takes precedence when multiple rules from th... - Read more + When you're trying to debug something and event listeners on the page keep interfering with what you're doing, it can be frustrating. +Imagine a mousemove event listener that changes some of the inform... + Read more
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    - Cookies are small files that websites save on your computer when you visit them. Websites often use cookies to remember things about your last visit. For example, a weather website can use cookies to... - Read more + To make sure your webpage loads and appears fast for your users, load only the CSS and JS code that your page requires to appear correctly. If some of your CSS or JS code is only needed later, when th... + 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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    - 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 + You can extract all the styles of an element in one go by using the Copy styles feature. +No need to go through all CSS rules and properties that apply to the element in the Styles pane, and manually b... + 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 + You can easily copy an element's XPath expression from DevTools. This is useful if you need this expression for an automated test for example. +Go to the Elements (or Inspector) panel +Use the context-... + Read more
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  • - Copy an elements styles - The Edge DevTools Elements panel, showing the context menu on an element and the Copy styles menu item. The screenshot also shows what the result of copying styles is: a flat list of CSS properties and values. +
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    - You can extract all the styles of an element in one go by using the Copy styles feature. -No need to go through all CSS rules and properties that apply to the element in the Styles pane, and manually b... - 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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    - Sometimes we need to uniquely identify an element that lacks an identifier, so that it can be referenced in JavaScript and other places. All the major browsers have an option to build a unique CSS sel... - 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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  • - Convert color formats - Animation of the rules panel in Firefox, showing the color conversion. +
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    - Colors in CSS can be expressed in a number of different formats: keyword (e.g. blue), RGB, HSL, hexadecimal, and others. -In DevTools, you can easily convert from one format to the next. -Find an eleme... - Read more + Sometimes we need to uniquely identify an element that lacks an identifier, so that it can be referenced in JavaScript and other places. All the major browsers have an option to build a unique CSS sel... + Read more
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    + There are two levels to consider when talking about blocking (or disabling) DevTools in a browser: +Disabling DevTools at the browser level. For example, if you have a browser for web development, and... + Read more +
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  • + Create your own simulated devices + Animation of the device mode in Firefox, showing how to customize the list of devices, including adding custom devices.
    - 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 + 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
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