I have the developer tools floated to be a separate window.
It nows takes the entire screen.
I did lots of research to see how to close it, but found nothing related.
Most of the posts are about how to open it.
(I tried CMD + option + i / F12, neither one works).
Also, I wonder how to dock it back into the page. I do not see such
an option under the "..." on top right corner.
Command+Shift+D (Mac) or Control+Shift+D (Windows, Linux) restores the DevTools window back to whatever position you had it in before you undocked it.
You can also change the docking position by opening the Command Menu, typing Dock, and selecting the option you want.
You can also access these options from DevTools's Main Menu. Note: It sounds like you were looking for the options in Chrome's main menu. You won't find any DevTools options there, other than the option to open DevTools.
Related
VS Code was docking devtools pane within the window before. Now, It opens a new window that increases back and forth. Is there any way to dock it back? I tried a few settings they did not work. Also, there is no dock icon as in Chrome.
This started with vscode v1.74 and is an electron bug. See The developer tools become a floating window.
There is a fix reported there. Disable the setting
Windows > Experimental > Windows Control Overlay: Enabled
You will be prompted to restart vscode and then opening the Dev Tools will be docked as before. Apparently, the Electron bug has been fixed.
In the devtools panel, click the vertically-aligned three dots at the top right. That will open up a context menu. You will see a "Dock side" entry with different icons signifying option values for that setting. You probably accidentally clicked the one that makes it pop the devtools out into its own window. Select whichever option you actually want there.
Anyone know of a way to open Chrome Dev tools to a new window upon open?
I know that I can click F12 and then click the 'customize' button and change orientation or pop out the dev tools window. But that's an extra step, and often a window resize is necessary, and when you do it 50 times a day, it gets to be tedious.
Also, sometimes, on pages I'm testing, pressing F12 will change the layout of the elements on the page and even popping out the dev tools leaves the page layout different than before I opened dev tools. This can make it hard to tell if an element is visible or not, which makes troubleshooting Webdriver more difficult.
Ideally, CTRL+F12 or something to open dev tools as a separate window would be super handy. (to any Chromium devs that might be listening ;) But if anyone has another solution, I'd love to hear it.
If you have your DevTools un-docked, the dock mode, size and position of your DevTools window will remain the same as you previously set it. For example, I just set mine to be maximised on my other monitor. Every time I open up DevTools, it's an un-docked, maximised window, and there's no change to the layout of the inspected window other than the fact it's no longer in focus.
You could alternatively launch Chrome using the --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs flag, which will automatically open DevTools in the dock mode, size and position you had it previously. You can use:
Mac:/Applications/Google\ Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/Google\ Chrome --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs
Windows: "C:\Program Files (x86)\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --auto-open-devtools-for-tabs
In WebDriver, you can set flags for how Chrome opens. However, after looking into this further, it turns out Chrome currently do not support multiple clients connected to the protocol simultaneously.
As for speeding things up, you can switch between dock positions with Cmd+Shift+D (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+D (Windows). This toggles between the last two modes you have used, so say you have it docked at the bottom, you then pop it out, using the shortcut now will toggle between the two.
Here's how you do it. On opening the developer tools, with the developer tools window in focus, press F1. This will open a settings page. Check the "Auto-open DevTools for popups".
Originally documented here -- https://newbedev.com/automatically-open-chrome-developer-tools-when-new-tab-new-window-is-opened.
In Chrome (version 32.0.1677.0 canary Aura), I can't find the overrides tab/page in the Developer Tools settings. (It used to be placed between the "General" and "Workspace" tabs. Did they move it, or did I forget to enable something?
Hit Esc to open the console drawer, then you can open the Sensors tab via the drawer menu on the left.
Sensors provides geolocation and accelerometer settings.
Additionally, the newer Device Mode captures the basics of mobile device emulation.
Seems like the "Emulation" button only is available from Console, when Console is opened from one of the other tool tabs. Ex. "Source" or "Elements".
Go to "Elements" , click on the "Show console" icon. The "console drawer" will open in bottom part of the window with Console, Search, Emulation tabs. If this is a bug or not is hard to say.
This thread is quite old and everything is now changed with the new "device mode". You cannot use any of this anymore.
As stated here by #paul-irish (from the Chrome DevTools team) on twitter :
one should just activate the device mode, and then use the shift key + drag the mouse around to emulate pinch zoom, with no particular setup.
this pinch to zoom emulation doesn't seem to work very good with JS libs like Hammer.
For now, it is better to test pinch to zoom on actual devices, or with http://browserstack.com
Is it possible to open the developer tools inside(attached to) a popup and not detached? I'm currently working a site with popups and need to bebug javascript and find it quite annoying to toggle between the popup and the developer tools window.
When debugging popup windows you can convert them to tabs. You can do this by right-clicking the title icon and selecting the show as tab option. Then you can open the developer console as usual.
There is a tiny button waaay down to the left of the developer tools (in the row where Inspect Element and clear console log are), it looks kinda like two rectangles overlapping... The tooltip should read "Undock into separate window"...
Is that what you meant?
-Edit- Just reread the question better... I guess that is not what you meant... :)
Open Chrome Dev Tools (Cmd + Option + I)
Open the Console tab
Paste the following, the hit enter:
setTimeout(function(){debugger;}, 5000)
Navigate to your popup and wait- in 5 seconds, the debugger will pause the page, and you can see your code!
Enjoy your debugging! 🐛
Reference from Mitch Winkel-Davis
Please press and hold the tiny button for seconds.
After that, you will find the another icon (or button) at the same location.
Please release your mouse button.
You can see a popup window of developer tools.
Just press ⌥ + cmd + I when the pop up window is in focus and dev tools will open in a new pop up window
This question is directly related to following existing question with different tag:
Keyboard shortcut to switch focus from web developer tools to page in Chrome
As stated in the title, is there anyway we can switch focus from web developer tools to page in Chrome on Mac OSX.
I looked up online, and at Chrome Dev. doc and help forum, nothing there but they pointed to SO for an answer. Here are some links regarding this question, I already found useless:
https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/shortcuts
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/google-chrome-developer-tools
Press F6 three times. To go back to DevTools press F6 one time.
F6 loop the focus in this order:
Page
DevTools(if DevTools is open)
Address bar
Bookmarks
You can move focus to the address bar with "Cmd + L". If you put javascript: in the address bar and hit the enter key, you can switch the focus to the page.
But javascript: is too long, isn't it? Then follow this.
Go to Chrome Settings page (Cmd + ,)
Click "Manage search engines..." in the Search section
Add a new search engine with
any name e.g. Back to page
any keyword e.g. j
URL - javascript:
Now you can move focus to the page only with j.
If you've un-docked dev-tools, on a Mac use Cmd+` (backtick) to move focus to active or next window.
This keyboard shortcut can be found and customized at:
System preferences -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Select "Keyboard" category
I've had this exact same use case, and I'm surprised there isn't a simple shortcut for it. I've done some research, and it seems there are a few options:
Use command + option + J to toggle the console off. This will bring focus back to the web page. Then, hitting command + option + J again will open the console and direct the focus there once again. This is probably not the best way since there is a little bit of on each toggle.
Open Dev Tools in separate window. You can find this by clicking the three dots in the top right corner of the dev tools, and then you can find a button for undocking the tools into a separate window. Then, to toggle focus between the web page and console, you can hit command + `.
The answer above from #Sangdol is a great solution for switching focus from the console to the web page. This is probably the fastest and best way of doing this once it's set up. The only thing I'd like to add is how to switch focus back to the console. For this, you can hit command + shift + C twice (hitting it only one will successfully switch the focus, but will leave the browser in 'Inspect Element' mode). I've found that if the focus on the webpage is in a text box, you may have to hit Esc first before hitting command + shift + C.
Press ⌘+L to go to address bar.
Press Esc.
You have now switched focus from web developer tools to page.
To switch back press focus back press ⌘+⌥+C.
This works for docked but is best for undocked dev tools and multiple windows/tabs.
With devtools focused hit ⌘+Shift+P
start typing in Debuggee
Hit enter when you see Focus debuggee, done!
Then to go back to dev tools just hit ⌘+⌥+J to focus back on the tab you left them.
It saves me some time everyday - my tabs can grow on me over the day... or days... weeks - pretty sure you've all been there - R&D!
New Update: In chrome Version 92.0.4515.131.
When DevTools is open and focus.
Press (⌘ Command+⌥ Option+↓ Down) Twice.
First time pressed - the focus will transfer to the URL.
The second time pressed - the focus will transfer to the page.
OS X 10.8.3 - Mountain Lion
customize "Move focus to next window in application" short cut, because the default key map is "Command + F1", which is binded to show "Shortcuts for Developer Tools" on chrome.
Update in chrome 107
You can now customize keyboard shortcuts for commands in DevTools.
Go to DevTools Settings > Shortcuts > set shortcut for "Focus debuggee".
Hitting ⌘+⌥+J twice will hide the dev tools and focus on your actual window. Do you want to focus on window without hiding dev tools?