I need to inspect a search bar. The search bar is initially hidden and only shows after clicking on the search icon.
However, if I click on my developer tools then the search bar dissapears again... If the search box should appear, then a class named active is added. So I tried to add the class manually but if I inspect other elements, then the active class is removed again...
Is there a way to lock the classlist? I could write a javascript interval method which sets the classlist, as a workaround.
e.g.
setInterval(function() {
jQuery("#debug")[0].classList = "label icon faSearch active";
}, 1000 );
But is there an easier way?
If you only need to debug your CSS, you can press F8 in the Sources tab of Developer console and you'll pause every Javascript code execution. That will prevent any Javascript code from altering the CSS classes.
Then you can change any CSS class manually.
Hope this helps,
When we inspect a page by chrome developer tools, By selecting the particular element, the styles of the element will be shown, where in we will have option to freeze the element's state by clicking ":hov" as shown in the screenshot below,
I have this annoying popup where it only displays the number 1. tried to search it manually in the system but there is too much others ones. is there a way where i could inspect a popup?
on your web page click on view page source by clicking on mouse right click or by ctrl+u with keyboard shortcode.
and then find:
alert(
and comment all alert box into your code.
Get id of that alert and search it manually. To get id, follow the image boxes or press CTRL+Shift+C and press ok. You will find function call in element section. go to the function and get your alert box.
Note: I've read similar threads, but none quite my issue - I can right click on it fine, it just then disappears.
I find 'Inspect Element' an invaluable tool in Chrome, however I'm having trouble using it for sub-menu for an element on my nav bar, which pops up below on hover of its parent item.
The popup (or down) isn't quite styled how I'd like, so I right-click > inspect element to see what's coming from where exactly, and get a better idea of how to achieve my desired effect.
However, as soon as I move my mouse away from the menu, it's gone; thus I can't select different elements in the inspection pane, and see which area is highlighted at the same time.
Is there a way around this, without changing the menu, so that it stays 'popped up' once activated?
If the hover element is triggered by JS (if triggered by CSS :hover, see gmo's answer), you can inspect it if you pause script execution. This is a much simpler way of freezing the DOM than the other answers suggest. You can pause script execution without losing the hover element as follows:
1. Via a keyboard shortcut
Here's how you do it in Chrome. I'm sure Firefox has an equivalent procedure:
Open up Developer Tools and go to Sources.
Note the shortcut to pause script execution—F8 (there may also be another depending on your OS).
Interact with the UI to get the element to appear.
Hit F8.
Now you can move your mouse around, inspect the DOM, whatever. The element will stay there.
2. Via a delayed debugger statement
Some web pages attach keydown / keypress / keyup event listeners which interfere with the shortcut above. In those cases, you can pause script execution by triggering a debugger statement while the hover is open:
Open the JS console, and enter:
// Pause script execution in 5 seconds
setTimeout(() => { debugger; }, 5000)
Trigger the hover and wait for the debugger statement to execute.
If the hover effect is given with CSS then yes, I normally use two options to get this:
One, to see the hover effect when the mouse leave the hover area:
Open the inspector in docked window and increase the width until reach your HTML element, then right click and the popup menu must be over the inspector zone... then when you move the mouse over the inspector view, the hover effect keep activated in the document.
Two, to keep the hover effect even if the mouse is not over the HTML element, open the inspector, go to Styles TAB and click in the upper right icon that says Toggle Element State...(dotted rectangle with an arrow) There you can manually activate the Hover Event (among others) with the checkbox provided.
If it's not clear at all, let me know and I can add a few screenshots.
Edited: screenshot added.
And finally and as I say at the begining, I only be able to do this if the hover is set with CSS:HOVER... when you control the hover state with jQuery.onMouseOver for example, only works (sometimes), the method One.
Hope it helps.
What worked for me is selecting the specific a tag I wanted to inspect and configure it to break on attribute modification:
After doing the above, I would again normally select that a tag then the dropdown will automatically stay as-is even when I mouseover to other places like Inspect Element, etc.
You can just refresh the browser when doing inspecting the menu dropdown elements to go back to normal state.
Hope this helps. :)
You can also do this in the javascript console:
$('#foo').trigger('mouseover');
An that will "freeze" the element in the "hover" state.
Here's how I do it with no CSS changes or JS pausing in Chrome (I am on a Mac and do not have a PC in front of me if you are running on Win):
have your developer console open.
do not enable the hover inspection tool yet, but instead open up your desired sub menu by moving your mouse over it.
hit Command+Shift+C (Mac) or Ctrl+Shift+C (Win/Linux)
now the hover inspection tool will apply to the elements you have opened in your sub-nav.
Open Inspect element
Now go to elements now on right side and select hover
It will show all hover effects
Not sure if it was present in previous browser revisions, but I just found out this extremely simple method.
Open the inspector in chrome or Firefox, right click on the element you are interested in, and select the appropriate option (in this case: hover).
This will trigger the associated CSS.
Screenshots from Firefox 55 and chromium 61.
I needed to do this, but the element I was trying to inspect was added and removed dynamically based on hover state of another element. My solution is similar to this one, but that didn't quite work for me.
So here's what I did:
Add simple script to enter debugger mode upon mouseover of the element that triggers the hover event you're concerned about.
$(document).on('mouseover', '[your-hover-element-selector]', function(e) {
debugger;
});
Then, with the dev console open in Chrome, hover over your element, and you will enter debugger mode. Navigate over to the sources section of the dev tools, and click the "Resume script execution" button (the blue play-like button below).
Once you do that, your DOM will be paused in the hover state, and you can use the element inspector to inspect all the elements as they exist in that state.
I found a very simple way to do this if for some reason you have problems with script pausing:
Open Dev Tools on "inspect"-tab.Hover to make the pop-up appear.Right-click on the desired element in your pop-up and press 'Q' (in Firefox) to inspect that element.Use keyboard to navigate: Arrow Up/Down: Move between elementsArrow Left/Right: Collapse/ExpandTab/Shift+Tab: Move between inspector and CSS rules and inside CSS RulesEnter: Edit CSS Rule
Excellent stuff!
Thank you to gmo for that advice. I did not know about those attribute settings massively helpful.
As a small revision to the wording I would explain that process as follows:
Right Click on the element you would like to style
Open 'Inspect' tool
On right hand side, navigate to the small Styles tab
Found above CSS stylesheet contents
Select the .hov option - This will give you all the settings
available for the selected HTML element
Click and Change all options to be inactive
Now Select the state that you would like to tweak - On activation of any of these, your Stylesheet will jump you directly to those settings:
Styles - Tweaking Filters - Interactive elements
This information was a lifesaver for me, cannot believe I have just heard about it!
Change the CSS so that the property which hides the menu isn't applied while you work on it is what I do.
I have a text box that is enabled, but almost acts like it is disabled.
It will only put the cursor in the textbox if I click on the left border of the box. If I click in any of the other normal white space in the box, it doesn't do anything. I have to hunt for the 'sweet spot' to get the cursor to appear and start typing.
This seemed to randomly crop up and I do not know of any settings that would relate to this behavior.
Any Ideas?
It is being covered partially by another element. Use a tool that allows you to right click and inspect an element, such as Firefox's built in inspector or firebug and that should show you the element that is in front of the textbox.
Anyone with firefox browser can you open up this fiddle.
The issue I have is with this checkbox button I have, it requires multiple clicks to turn it off and my question is how can I stop this from happening? I know its the posistion:relative which is causing this but I need this so that every time I click on a button, it does not go to the top of the page. I just want the button to turn on and off in one click, not multiple clicks
(See comments below the question - now I know what happens to you)
Ahhh - you cannot solve this without Javascript: quick (double?) click on the TEXT ITSELF is interpreted as "select text" by the browser, and it does not send the event to the checkbox when that happens. With Javascript you can force "un-select" of the text on click.
Click "slowly" - avoiding double click text selection - and it will work (just to show the cause of the problem, no solution without Javascript or proprietary CSS).
Try adding this: Prevent text selection after double click
Maybe you should use a full Javascript Checkbox-Button solution instead of trying to accomplish it with just CSS.