Browser Inspection Tools – Accessing – HTML+CSS Live Editing



Browser Inspection Tools – Accessing – HTML+CSS Live Editing

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browser-inspection-tools

Presentation on various browser inspection tools. Made with reveal.js

On Github annejohnson / browser-inspection-tools

Browser Inspection Tools

Looking under the hood

By Anne / @depaysant

Note:

The examples that follow are in Google Chrome, but other major browsers offer similar features.

Accessing

Right click + "Inspect Element"

OR

>> "Tools" >> "Developer Tools"

This appears:

HTML+CSS Live Editing

Beautify bad web design [link]

...by adding styles

...and changing colors

...and removing styles.

We can also change elements, attributes, and text:

What is this circle?

The Magnifying Glass

Why's it not centered?

Another margin/padding/size indicator:

This is at the bottom of the styles tab for each element.

Debugging Javascript

Painful without browser inspection tools.

There should be a timed counter below:

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Super-powered debugging

Breakpoints, expression watching, and more!

Play around here.

Elements >> Properties

Useful when writing Javascript that needs to access an element together with its parent element, child element, next element, etc.

JS Console

Improve webpage performance

Network

^Also useful for troubleshooting

Audit

Profiler

Timeline

Moral of the story:

Love your Browser

(unless it's IE v. 9 or less)

That's all!