Disable grid in chrome device emulation - html

I know this question may not fit well here but this really is driving me crazy for few hours now :( I use chrome to simulate how websites look on different mobile devices. I clicked something wrong that led to a grid with rulers to appear. I don't know WTF to do to disable this grid. This is the screenshot:
I uninstalled and reinstalled the browser and it returns back.
I reset the developer tools to default settings and it's still there.
This is really becoming a nightmare for me for few hours now. I want the regular emulation without these rulers and grid and top bar. Thanks

There is a small blue button on the left of Elements which actually does the magic.

You didn't click anything wrong. Your Chrome updated itself to 38.2125 and the emulator now has those attributes. Further more, the touch function is broken.
To fix the problem, download the "Canary" version of Chrome. You're still required to see the grid, but the screen is improved and easier to see your layout. Also, the touch function is fixed.
Get Chrome Canary here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/browser/canary.html

That button just enables/disables the emulator. The OP is looking for a way to disable the background grid while emulating mobile devices.

If you're looking to disable the multi-colored grid lines that show up as an overlay, check out the console dock on the bottom of dev tools. There is a tab labeled rendering and try disabling "Show composited layer borders". If you're still seeing the rulers, that setting is in the Settings (gear) of dev tools, there is an option under the Elements heading for "Show rulers".

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In chrome dev tool footer element is not displayed while in firefox dev tool it is displayed. Why?

I am developing a static web app via React.js. I am using the google dev tool to inspect elements. In responsive design mode, everything is fine. However, when I select a specific mobile phone the footer element is not shown when I scroll to the bottom. However, it is visible on the console when ı inspect elements I can see the HTML info. I thought that maybe somehow I fixed the height for mobile devices or smt. Then I tried the firefox dev tool and I am able to see the footer. I have no idea which one is more realistic since I didn't deploy it yet. I deleted the history of browser before I tried.
More specifically; on the chrome dev tool when I select responsive design mode and change the resolution to 375x812 (same as iPhone X), I am able to see my footer. If I select iPhone x rather than responsive design mode, then I don't see it. It is more annoying that, both cases are okay for the firefox tool and I see my footer. So what is the problem ? Why two dev tools act so so differently for the same app and more importantly which one is true ?
Okay, I figured it out. There is a zoom option next to the width and height. It was 100% for my case, which should be "fit to window". I am leaving this dumb question here, it helps if any other beginner faces the same issue.

Chrome Inspector - Dimensions removed?

Does anyone else have the problem that since yesterday in Chrome the dimensions of the browserwindow aren't shown anymore?
Could this come from an Chrome Update or is it a problem only of my browser?
I find this issue to. Because I use it every day it's critical for me. This may help you:
https://gist.github.com/mrpapercut/7a004210306b62dcf813
But I think it's just a f***up and they roll back it soon.
In version 48.0.2564.116 the dimensions are shown in the page only while I am actively resizing the window with the developer tools open -- they disappear after a short delay. Version 49.0.2623.87 (current as I post this) removes this tooltip.
You can force the dimensions to be visible at all times by turning on "Device Mode" (the iPhone-looking button second from the left in the developer toolbar.)

Google Chrome is zoomed in

So I was using Chrome and IE together when all of a sudden Chrome decides to change its zoom level not only for the webpage, but the entire browser. I'm not sure if it happened when I restarted Chrome or if it happened when I decided to bring it to the front. So basically, all menu items, logos, icons, absolutely everything appears to have been zoomed in slightly. I have restored to original settings, disabled extensions (I don't use any extensions anyways), uninstalled and reinstalled, and nothing.
I've used the DPI settings in the properties of the Chrome application and nothing changes it. I've changed scaling in Windows and nothing helps.
Everything is larger in Chrome now and it's driving me crazy. Many menu items won't appear fully because of this. Note that this isn't just at the webpage level but at the entire browser level. I've included some images so you can compare. If you look at the youtube homepage, you'll see that everything is larger in Chrome than it is in Internet Explorer.
Scratch that apparently I need reputation in order to post pictures, ugh. If I can get 10 rep soon I'll post some pics.
I'm sorry if my description is rather vague but this isn't something I could search up. No other programs (including IE) are having this issue. THanks very much in advance if anyone can help. This is just driving me crazy.
No, Ctrl + 0 obviously does not work. This is an issue with the program as the entire program looks zoomed in. Everything, not just the webpage.
Found a "quick fix" solution from post #38 here:
Right click on the Chrome link on your desktop
Choose Properties and then add " /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1" to the existing Link to your path to chrome.exe.
Hope this works permanently. What a hassle.
If you're experiencing a "zoomed in" browser it's because you have an updated version of Chrome. Chrome and FireFox now adjusts the page zoom level according to your Windows settings to better support high DPI displays. For example, if Windows is set to 125% font size (120dpi), the content area will be zoomed by 25%. This is usually the default setting on your computer.
This means that your updated Chrome and/or FireFox browser will automatically set websites to 125%, and all other browsers remain at 100%.
What are possible solutions?
As of this writing, their isn't a known method of fixing this from a web coding standpoint, due to that it's created from the inner workings of the browser. That being said, their are still some things you can do from the "users" side to fix this:
The quickest way around this is to open up your browser and press on your keyboard "ctrl -" (control minus) twice. This will set your website content to 75%, which would be equivalent to 100% in all other browsers (but this will just fix the website content).
You can set your computers font-size settings in your control panel to "100%". This will make all of your computer fonts smaller.
I'm sure their is a better answer to this, but for now these are the 2 options that I'm seeing. In FireFox version 22 they also added this feature (as mentioned above), you can see the work around for FireFox here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/962979
I'm sure a similar solution also exist with Chrome.
You can change your windows default zoom to 100% in display settings and make everything almost unreadable, or (a better way)
You can add a start parameter to your chrome shortcut:
"your-chrome-dir\chrome.exe" /high-dpi-support=1 /force-device-scale-factor=1
I know, it's too late, but just in case someone else has this problem...

Google Chrome disable screen ruler

Since the last update of Google Chrome, a screen ruler shows up when inspecting an element. Does anyone know how to disable this ruler?
This is an old question, but now you can enable or disable now in Chrome Developer Tools -> Settings -> Show Rulers (you can also access the settings just pressing F1).
In Chrome 38, there is a "Toggle Device Mode" button to the left of menu items in developer tools. Clicking on it will toggle display of ruler and device emulation list.
Go to "Settings" -> "General" tab.
In the end of page, click on button "Restore defaults and reload".
=)
It's not possible for the moment.
You need to wait Chrome 25 or use Canari.
https://plus.google.com/115203843155141445032/posts/771CKRcKYdM
This is now known as Device Mode. It allows you to select different device screen sizes as well as emulate different Network Speeds.
You can enable/disable it by clicking the Phone Icon on your console.
Upgrading to the latest dev release fixed this for me:
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/eula_dev.html?dl=mac
This started happening to me out of the blue. I use Chrome inspect element for developing, on a personal computer that no one else uses.
This morning, I had the whole rulers-and-menus thing appear as if out of nowhere.
The above suggestions did nothing. When I got to the configuration check-box for rulers, I discovered it was turned off.
I was able to get the old look back by resetting the defaults in the same config menu which held the rulers check-box. Hope that helps anyone stuck like I was.
When you have the unspect editor opened, Just go to settings by clicking the icon (top right on the unspector) there you will find a big button saying restore defaults and reload . That worked for me . Good luck
I'm using Chrome Canary (Version 45.0.2451.0 canary), and the presence of the rulers appears to be tied to whether Emulation is enabled. Restoring defaults (as suggested above) turns it off, or you can just go to the drawer at the bottom and do it.

Browser doesn't scale below 400px?

I'm working on putting together a liquid style-sheet and it works wonderful. One thing that I've noticed is that my browser window in Chrome won't resize below 400px it just gets stuck there and in FF as I scale down it it just stops at around 400px and then pops a horizontal scroll bar.
When I open the site on my phone it looks perfect at around 320px, so I know it does scale lower than 400px.
I was curious if anyone knew if this was a browser/desktop thing or if I should be looking at something other than my CSS. I don't have any min-width declarations so i'm not sure what could be causing this.
Again on desktop it scales down to a min-width of about 400px and stops, but when I open it up on my phone it scales to the size of the phone screen which is roughly 320px... curious why at the very least it won't scale down to the 320px on desktop.
-edit-
Also I'm not sure if this matters but Opera allows it to scale down to pretty much nothing... So it works with Opera and not in Chrome or FF... any ideas?
Chrome cannot resize horizontally below 400px (OS X) or 218px (Windows) but I have a really simple solution to the problem:
Dock the web inspector to the right instead of to the bottom
Resize the inspector panel - you can now make the browser area really small (down to 0px)
Update: Chrome now allows you to arrange the inspector windows vertically when docked to the right! This really improves the layout.
The HTML and CSS panels fit really well and you even open a small console panel too.
This has allowed me to completely move from Firefox/Firebug to Chrome.
If you want to go a step further look at the web inspector settings (cog icon, bottom-right), and goto the user agent tab. You can set the screen resolution to whatever you like here and even quickly toggle between portrait and landscape.
UPDATE: Here is another really cool tool I've come across. http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer/
this may be because of the addons you installed on your browser. remove or hide all addon icons from the tool bar and try re size. when there are addons browser only resize the address bar and keeps the addons visible.
Update: 7/14/2013
With the latest chrome version, now you can re-size the address bar and it will hide the addons automatically.
I was stumped as well but ended up with a simple solution. I just created a HTML file with a link to open a new window:
Open!
This new window has nothing but the address bar and Chrome lets me freely resize this down to 111x80.
nayan9's solution works great, and can be put into a bookmark without having to create a html file. In Chrome, create a new bookmark with URL:
javascript:(function(){window.open('ANY_URL', '','width=320,height=480');})();
And give it a name of "Open Small Window" or something similar. This will allow you to easily open windows without size restrictions within chrome. Note that just copying this into your address bar won't work - chrome strips the "javascript:" out.
In case you want to reduce your screen width to emulate different devices (and why else would you want to do this?):
Chrome now has an Emulation section in its inspector, activated by clicking the little phone icon in the top menubar (between the magnifying glass and Elements):
Emulation mode allows you to set the viewport size to all common mobile screen sizes, among other nice features, like emulating touch, geolocation and even accelerometer input:
Adding to what nayan9 and drinkdecaf said, you can just throw document.URL into the call to window.open to see the page you're currently viewing in the 320 window. You might want to add some more to the width if you're expecting a scrollbar.
javascript:(function(){window.open(document.URL, '','width=320,height=480');})();
I am lazy, to make it even easier, let the bookmarklet ask the user for sizes :-D
javascript: (function() {var width = prompt('Enter window width:', '320');var height = prompt('Enter window height:','480');var url = prompt('Enter window URL');if (url.indexOf(':') < 0) {url = 'http://'+url;} window.open(url, '','width='+width+',height='+height);})()
in chrome the icons of your addons in the top right corner cause the problem
-> resize the adress-bar (where you type the urls) to maximum width (drag the bar at the right edge to the right)
or disable the icons
The DevTools in Chrome have moved on substantially from when most of these answers were posted. The best way to address this issue now is to use the emulators that are built into Chrome.
To use the emulators open DevTools (press F12) and then click on the following icon to toggle the Device Toolbar:
This will then allow you to emulate whichever mobile device or viewport size you want to.
I found a quick workaround for this.
Just install the Responsive Web Design Add-on to Chrome, and it will open a separate window without the address bar and tabs, which can be scaled down to 10 px or less.
Link here: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/responsive-web-design-tes/bdpelkpfhjfiacjeobkhlkkgaphbobea/related
I've been experiencing similar issues and just found a good work around. Open up your chrome devtools and in the top left, there's a little screen and ipad icon. Click that and it opens a mobile view of your page. You can set it to predefined devices or a custom resolution. Pretty nifty actually.
Another easy solution is to click Strg+Shift+N to enter Incognito Mode. There you can resize your Browser window as you like.
I like this tool because it lets you switch quickly and also switches between portrait/horizontal easily for mobile sizes. It also allows you to make a personalized bookmark let, so if you design for obscure resolutions frequently, you can save them and use them.
I had to use one of these tools because even with the above answer I couldn't get my window to scale to 320 properly, this tool seems to be a faster solution overall.
http://lab.maltewassermann.com/viewport-resizer/
I'm always running into this issue with pinned tabs. Chrome will not resize below a horizontal width of eight visible pinned tabs if there are any! Just detach the tab that you want to resize to solve this ...
For a web developer, in order to test the responsiveness of their website in mobile or tablet whose size is less than 500px or minimum width then use developer tools to test in small screens.
For testing, go to developer tools and press ctrl+shift+M or click the device icon at the top left of the developer tools screen to toggle device mode. If the device icon is in blue colour, then you can test your website responsiveness by changing the browser window.
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Now to answer:
Safari, has this cool feature.
You need to activate safari developer option in preferences.
Screenshot of setting up preferences in Safari to activate developer menu
Once activated you can access bunch of very powerful developer tools.
One of this tool is Viewport adjustment which can used to test your website responsive layout.
To activate responsive lay out testing, one can use the shortcut Command+Ctrl+R
to activate safari view port adjustment option.
This will give you enough control to test your website on various view port sizes.
Screen shot of how your browser window will look once responsive layout test option is activated.
Link to how to activate developer menu in safari:
https://coolestguidesontheplanet.com/safari-web-developer-tools-show-dock-browser-window/
A lot of smart phones scale the page to fit into their screen size using zooming. Your minimum page width is probably 400px. Without any example code, I think that's all that can be said.