When inspecting elements with the devtools I get this popup:
Usually useful but I need to disable it now as it is hiding an element I need to see.
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Chrome devtools showing this popup with element xpath near selected element that is highlighted (div#mainbar). How to hide that popup and only highlight element?
In 2020 they've added so much info into that popup - so it has become a real nuisance when inspecting the page.
Partial solution:
Hold down Ctrl or CMD key (depending on you OS) while hovering over elements and the popup will not be displayed.
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As of December 2017, there is no setting for removing that popup. It seems like an uncommon use case, so unfortunately I don't think the team would implement that option.
I have an autocomplete dropdown box for city names as,
When i try to inspect one of the option elements using right click and Inspect Element, the dropdown menu disappears and inspect element takes me to the original page's dom.
How can one inspect dropdown menus using firebug inspect element?
With the suggestions dropdown visible and DevTools opened, press F8 and switch to the DevTools. You will immediately break at the JS blur handler for the field, so the dropdown will not be removed, thus you'll be able to inspect its DOM.
Edit HTML right click menu Chrome Dev Tool
In Chrome Dev Tool you can Right Click on the input where you type the adress, Scroll down to "Break On..." and select subtree modifications.
Go back to your input and start typing. It should Pause the app leaving you with the open suggestions dropdown.
Can't speak for Firefox, but in Chrome developer tools you can trigger a state on an element manually by right-clicking on the element in the developer window, and choosing the appropriate item (i.e. ':hover').
Inspect the dropdown/input element and remove the "Blur" event from the "Event Listeners"
If you inspect something in Chrome devtools it can returned a nested structure
For example...
I'd like to access this and inspect it using just the keyboard.
Is there a way to do this? I'm trying to not use the mouse for development and I have to give up when inspecting things this way.
inspect($0) to make sure its open in Elements panel.
And then you might have to change focus but one focused in DOM view arrow keys can expand the DOM's tree view.
I found a custom theme for my chrome web inspector but I need to make some small changes. Where do you find the selectors for the elements in the web inspector?
In the picture below I am trying to make the expand arrow white so you can see it against the background:
DevTools front end is an HTML page, so you can inspect its elements/layout via another instance of devtools. To do so, undock devtools, focus on its window and hit Ctrl-Shift-I (or Cmd-Opt-I on mac).
I am trying to inspect the div element that appears for Tipsy hover-overs on this page in order to change the width of the popup.
https://dl.dropbox.com/u/1531353/Misc/Docudocker/setups/tipsyCrashingApplication/force-html.html
However, when I press Shift+Ctrl+C, and then move my mouse to the Developer Elements panel, the Tipsy hover-over disappears, so I can't examine it any more.
How do I examine an element that only appears upon a hover-over effect in Chrome Web Developer?
I am using Win 7. I used firebug & it showed that tooltips were using the tipsy.css try to navigate to your tipsy css & change the width attrib though i couldnt get the bottom part of the tooltip in right shape. Hope it helps