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  • + Visualize the tabbing order on the page + The tabbing order highlighter in Firefox, showing numbered boxes around focusable elements. +
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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 @@ -526,13 +458,15 @@

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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. +
  • + Tweak css grid and flexbox alignment properties + The grid editor in the Styles pane of Microsoft Edge.
    - 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 + Chrome and Edge both have a visual editor useful for tweaking flexbox and grid alignment properties. +Head over to the Elements panel +Select an element that is either a grid or flexbox container +In th... + 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. +
  • + Understand flexbox item sizing + Firefox, with the DevTools Inspector tool opened, showing the Layout sidebar that contains the flex item diagram.
    - 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 + 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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  • + 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.
    - 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 + 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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  • - Test your PWA protocol handlers - Microsoft Edge, with the Application tool opened on the side, showing the Protocol Handlers section. +
  • + Throttle your CPU + The Performance tool in Chrome showing the CPU throttling drop-down.
    - 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 + 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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  • - Take screenshots of your site in a device frame - Screenshot of the devtoolstips.org website in an iPhone frame +
  • + Test your PWA protocol handlers + Microsoft Edge, with the Application tool opened on the side, showing the Protocol Handlers section.
    - 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 + 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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    - 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 +
  • + Take screenshots of your site in a device frame + Screenshot of the devtoolstips.org website in an iPhone frame +
    + 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
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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. +
  • + 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.
    - 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 + 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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  • - Simulate pseudo CSS classes - The :hov button and the pseudo-class panel in Chrome DevTools +
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    - If you use :hover, :active, or other pseudo-classes in your CSS code, it can be tedious to test them. For example, having to hover over an element which is styled with the :hover pseudo-class means th... - 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. -
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    - All browser DevTools have a built-in mode that you can use to test a webpage under different screen sizes and device capabilities. -As a web developer, it is very important to realize that your website... - Read more + If you use :hover, :active, or other pseudo-classes in your CSS code, it can be tedious to test them. For example, having to hover over an element which is styled with the :hover pseudo-class means th... + Read more
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  • - Simulate color vision deficiencies - The color vision simulation drop-down in Firefox. +
  • + 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.
    - 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 + 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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  • - Know which of the font in a font-family was actually used - Firefox, DevTools is opened on the side, showing the Inspector tool and the Rules sidebar tab. The font-family property shows a long list of fonts, with one of them being underlined +
  • + Simulate different devices and screen sizes + Chrome, with DevTools on the side, and the rendered webpage wrapped in the device simulation mode
    - The CSS font-family property let's you define a comma-separated list of fonts that the browser engine should choose from (in priority order) to render text. For example, with font-family: "Gill S... - Read more + All browser DevTools have a built-in mode that you can use to test a webpage under different screen sizes and device capabilities. +As a web developer, it is very important to realize that your website... + Read more
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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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  • 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. @@ -1302,6 +1213,27 @@

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    + The CSS font-family property let's you define a comma-separated list of fonts that the browser engine should choose from (in priority order) to render text. For example, with font-family: "Gill S... + Read more +
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  • See the page in 3D The 3D view tool showing a page's z-index stacking tree as a 3d scene. @@ -1393,56 +1325,26 @@

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  • + See the accessibility tree + The Accessibility tool in Firefox, showing the accessibility tree
    - Edge (starting with 110), Firefox and Polypane all have a very nice JSON viewer tool that makes it easy to view JSON responses from your server directly in the browser window. -You don't even need to o... - 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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    - 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 + Edge (starting with 110), Firefox and Polypane all have a very nice JSON viewer tool that makes it easy to view JSON responses from your server directly in the browser window. +You don't even need to o... + 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 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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  • 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. @@ -1603,6 +1535,40 @@

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  • + Quickly reference React components in the console + The React DevTools components panel in DevTools, and Console below it, showing the result of $r +
    + 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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  • - Quickly reference React components in the console - The React DevTools components panel in DevTools, and Console below it, showing the result of $r +
  • + Query object instances and holders from the console + The console in Safari, showing the result of queryInstances(app.TodoItem).
    - 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 + All browser DevTools have a few built-in functions in the console to do things like get the current element, or copy a string. But Safari exposes 2 nice built-in functions: +queryInstances +queryHolder... + Read more
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  • + Write code on multiple lines in the Console + Tthe button to switch the Firefox console to the multi-line mode. +
    + If you're feeling adventurous and want to write longer pieces of code in the Console to execute more complex things, it can quickly become difficult. +Thankfully, there are a few ways to make your life... + Read more +
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    - If you're feeling adventurous and want to write longer pieces of code in the Console to execute more complex things, it can quickly become difficult. -Thankfully, there are a few ways to make your life... - 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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    - Do you need to find out the dimensions of any element or area in the page? Or perhaps the distance between two things? -If you do, Firefox DevTools may be the right tool for the job. -First, enable the... - Read more -
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    + Do you need to find out the dimensions of any element or area in the page? Or perhaps the distance between two things? +If you do, Firefox DevTools may be the right tool for the job. +First, enable the... + Read more +
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  • + List the fonts used on a page, or an element + Firefox, with DevTools on the side, showing the Fonts panel that contains the list of fonts. One of the fonts is hovered +
    + "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 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. @@ -2277,78 +2243,75 @@

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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. +
  • + 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
    - 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 + 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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  • + 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.
    - "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 + 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
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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
    - 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 + 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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  • + Inspect DevTools with DevTools + Two Chrome DevTools windows, the first one inspects a webpage, the second one inspects the first one
    - 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 + 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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  • + Ignore JavaScript code to ease debugging + Firefox ignore line contextual menu option, displayed on a few lines of selected JavaScript code.
    - If the page you are working on contains an iframe which you want to inspect and debug, you can actually use DevTools to do so. This can be very useful when working with coding playground sites like Co... - Read more + 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
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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 +
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  • + Format console messages + A formatted console message in Edge.
    - 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 + You can use special formatters in the console.log function to format logs just the way you want. +Use %s to format a variable as a string. +Use %d to format a variable as an integer. +Use %f to format a... + Read more
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  • + Get the recently selected DOM nodes in the console + Chrome DevTools, with the Elements and Console tools shown. 5 DOM nodes are selected, one after the other, and then the $0, $1, $2, $3, and $4 shortcuts are used in the Console, showing how they refer to the previously selected DOM nodes.
    - Edge has a feature called the DevTools Tooltips that gives you help about the different tools right inside of DevTools. -There are several ways to enable it: -Press ctrl+shift+H (or cmd+shift+H on mac)... - 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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  • + Get contextual DevTools help + Animation of the DevTools tooltips in Edge.
    - The periodic background sync API, available to PWAs is a great way to fetch new content while the user isn't on the site, and while they have access to the network, to make sure they have the latest c... - Read more + Edge has a feature called the DevTools Tooltips that gives you help about the different tools right inside of DevTools. +There are several ways to enable it: +Press ctrl+shift+H (or cmd+shift+H on mac)... + Read more
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  • + Force PWA periodic background syncs + The Application panel in Edge showing the periodic sync input and buttons.
    - 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 + The periodic background sync API, available to PWAs is a great way to fetch new content while the user isn't on the site, and while they have access to the network, to make sure they have the latest c... + Read more
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  • + Force execution, skipping breakpoints, when paused + The Sources tool in Edge, showing the Force script execution button
    - There are multiple ways to detect and fix color contrast issues with DevTools, but here is a nice one to keep in mind. It's not straightforward to use and takes a few steps, but makes it very nice to... - 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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    + There are multiple ways to detect and fix color contrast issues with DevTools, but here is a nice one to keep in mind. It's not straightforward to use and takes a few steps, but makes it very nice to... + 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 +
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  • + Find the most expensive CSS selectors + The Performance tool in Chrome showing a recorded profile with a selected Recalculate Style block, and the Selector Stats table below it.
    - 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 + 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
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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 + DevTools is so full of features these days that we hardly ever use View-Source anymore. But it turns out that it has one trick up its sleeves that other tools don't, at least in Firefox and Polypane.... + Read more
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    - If you spent time changing CSS in DevTools, either in the Rules panel (in Firefox), or in the Sources or Styles panels (in Chrome or Edge), and you don't remember all of the changes you made, you can... - 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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    + If you spent time changing CSS in DevTools, either in the Rules panel (in Firefox), or in the Sources or Styles panels (in Chrome or Edge), and you don't remember all of the changes you made, you can... + Read more +
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  • + Explain console errors by using artificial intelligence + Edge with DevTools opened, an error was clicked, and Copilot is in the Edge sidebar, showing the error message and the explanation
    - 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 + Edge DevTools lets use the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant to explain errors and warnings in the Console tool. +Console errors can sometimes be hard to understand and fix. The large language models that... + 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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  • + Use commands to do things faster + Edge's command menu.
    - 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 + 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
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    - Edge DevTools lets use the Microsoft Copilot AI assistant to explain errors and warnings in the Console tool. -Console errors can sometimes be hard to understand and fix. The large language models that... - Read more + DevTools supports 2 ways to evaluate XPath expressions to help you locate elements in the page. All browsers support those 2 ways: +From the Elements (or Inspector) panel: +Click anywhere in the panel... + 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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    - DevTools supports 2 ways to evaluate XPath expressions to help you locate elements in the page. All browsers support those 2 ways: -From the Elements (or Inspector) panel: -Click anywhere in the panel... - 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 + Operating systems offer an accessibility feature where the colors shown on the screen are converted to offer higher contrast. When you use this feature, it impacts all the content on the screen: your... + 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.
    - Sometimes, when debugging JavaScript code in DevTools, you may want to test a quick change and see whether that fixes the bug. -Usually, this involves the following steps: -Pause at a breakpoint, or an... - 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 + The filter property in CSS lets you change the way a particular element gets rendered. +Firefox provides a visual editor to play with CSS filters. You can add or remove filter functions from the list,... + Read more
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    - The filter property in CSS lets you change the way a particular element gets rendered. -Firefox provides a visual editor to play with CSS filters. You can add or remove filter functions from the list,... - Read more + Sometimes, when debugging JavaScript code in DevTools, you may want to test a quick change and see whether that fixes the bug. +Usually, this involves the following steps: +Pause at a breakpoint, or an... + Read more
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  • + Edit clip-path and shape-outside CSS properties by dragging points in the page + Animation of the shape editor in firefox, clicking on the Rules panel icon, and then moving points around in the page.
    - If you need to move nodes or elements around in the DOM tree, to re-order things in the page, you can do it by drag and dropping nodes around in the Elements (or Inspector) panel.... - Read more + 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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    + 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: +$$('img').forEach(async (img) => { try { const src = img.src;... + Read more +
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    - If you want to download all of the images on a webpage in one go, you can use the following few lines of JavaScript code to do it: -$$('img').forEach(async (img) => { try { const src = img.src;... - Read more + If you need to move nodes or elements around in the DOM tree, to re-order things in the page, you can do it by drag and dropping nodes around in the Elements (or Inspector) panel.... + 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 +
    + 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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    - 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 + 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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  • + Disable abusive debugger statements that prevent inspecting websites + The Sources tool in Firefox, showing how to add a conditional breakpoint.
    - 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 + Some websites make it impossible to use DevTools by adding debugger statements in their code. +The statements don't do anything for normal users, but as soon as DevTools is opened, the JavaScript execu... + Read more
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    + If you work on a webpage that's supposed to be printed, you probably want to test your print CSS styles. You can use your browser's print preview of course, but what if you need to debug the CSS? +DevT... + Read more
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    - Starting with Safari 17 (announced at WWDC 2023) any website you use in Safari can be installed as a Web App on macOS. Once installed, the Web App shows up like any other app on macOS, in all of the s... - Read more + Sometimes scrollbars appear on a web page in places we don't want them to. And when this happens, it's not always very straightforward to fix the problem. Which container is responsible for the scroll... + Read more
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    - If you work on a webpage that's supposed to be printed, you probably want to test your print CSS styles. You can use your browser's print preview of course, but what if you need to debug the CSS? -DevT... - 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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    - Objects appear in many places in DevTools. Most commonly in the Console tool, but also in various parts of the Sources (or Debugger) tool when you debug JavaScript code. -DevTools is the one that decid... - 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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    - 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 + Objects appear in many places in DevTools. Most commonly in the Console tool, but also in various parts of the Sources (or Debugger) tool when you debug JavaScript code. +DevTools is the one that decid... + Read more
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    - You can change the color theme of DevTools to match your preference (see Change the color theme of DevTools to learn more), but you can also create your own theme from scratch by creating a browser ex... - Read more + To copy the SVG source code of an SVG image that's embedded directly in the HTML of a webpage, use the Elements tool in DevTools (Inspector in Firefox). +To open DevTools, right-click the SVG image o... + 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($$('a').map(a =&g... - Read more + You can change the color theme of DevTools to match your preference (see Change the color theme of DevTools to learn more), but you can also create your own theme from scratch by creating a browser ex... + Read more
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    - To copy the SVG source code of an SVG image that's embedded directly in the HTML of a webpage, use the Elements tool in DevTools (Inspector in Firefox). -To open DevTools, right-click the SVG image o... - Read more + The console panel supports a very handy copy() function that stringifies and copies anything you pass to it as an argument, so you can then paste it somewhere else. +For example: copy($$('a').map(a =&g... + Read more
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    - 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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    - 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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  • - Convert images to data-urls - The Network tool in Edge, an image is selected, the Preview tab is open, and the right-click menu shows the copy image as data URI item +
  • + Convert color formats + Animation of the rules panel in Firefox, showing the color conversion.
    - 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 + 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
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  • - Check if your site can be instantly reloaded from bfcache - Chrome DevTools with the Application tool, and the bfcache tab selected, showing a warning that the page can't be cached. +
  • + Convert images to data-urls + The Network tool in Edge, an image is selected, the Preview tab is open, and the right-click menu shows the copy image as data URI item
    - Most browsers are now able to instantly go back to previously visited pages without having to wait for them to load. This ability is powered by the back/forward cache (or bfcache). Firefox, Safari, an... - 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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  • - Change the color theme of DevTools - the settings panel in Edge showing the Theme drop-down. +
  • + Check if your site can be instantly reloaded from bfcache + Chrome DevTools with the Application tool, and the bfcache tab selected, showing a warning that the page can't be cached.
    - Chrome, Firefox and Safari all have a light and dark theme for their DevTools. On top of these two themes, Edge also has about 10 VS Code themes such as Monokai and Solarized Dark. -To change the theme... - Read more + Most browsers are now able to instantly go back to previously visited pages without having to wait for them to load. This ability is powered by the back/forward cache (or bfcache). Firefox, Safari, an... + Read more
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  • + Change the color theme of DevTools + the settings panel in Edge showing the Theme drop-down. +
    + Chrome, Firefox and Safari all have a light and dark theme for their DevTools. On top of these two themes, Edge also has about 10 VS Code themes such as Monokai and Solarized Dark. +To change the theme... + 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. +
  • + Automatically logging name and value in console.log() + Animation showing the different ways the variables are logged with and without curly braces.
    - 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 + 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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    - 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 + 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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  • + Access results from recent Console evaluations + The Console in Firefox DevTools showing how using $_ refers to the previous Console result +
    + 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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