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Use DevTools in another language
If you want to use DevTools in another language than English, you can do it across all major browser... Read more -
Access results from recent Console evaluations
Imagine you evaluate a long expression like $$('*').map(el => Object.values(el.attributes).map(at... Read more -
Simulate a different latitude/longitude geolocation
If your website has features that depend on the geographic location of your users, you can test thes... Read more -
Find inactive CSS styles
Sometimes we write CSS code that's entirely valid but has absolutely no effect at all, and this can... Read more -
Get the recently selected DOM nodes in the console
If you type $0 in the Console tool, in any browser, the currently selected DOM node is returned. Thi... Read more -
Inspect CSS animations
Modern browser DevTools provide a handy tool to inspect and modify CSS animations, CSS transitions,... Read more -
Remove annoying page overlays and other elements
A lot of websites these days get covered with overlays and crammed with lots of ads and other things... Read more -
Copy CSS selector of an element
Sometimes we need to uniquely identify an element that lacks an identifier, so that it can be refere... Read more -
Copy an element's JavaScript path
JavaScript often needs references to DOM nodes on the page. Getting a reference is sometimes easy wi... Read more -
Jump from a label `for` attribute to the linked input (and more)
In Firefox, you can jump from an element that references the ID attribute of an other element, to th... Read moreCategories: Supported by: -
Fix color contrast issues using the element tooltip
There are multiple ways to detect and fix color contrast issues with DevTools, but here is a nice on... Read more -
Empty the cache and hard refresh
Here is a nice tip to quickly empty your cache and refresh the page, in order to test new code chang... Read more -
Quickly spot out-of-viewport elements
Sometimes, either by accident or on purpose, HTML elements end up outside of the visible browser vie... Read moreCategories: Supported by: -
Edit an element's attributes and tag name with the keyboard
Using the keyboard can be faster than using a mouse in certain cases (and for some people). One such... Read more -
Create your own simulated devices
You can simulate various different devices from DevTools, to get an idea of how your webpage might r... Read more -
Discover all the tools
DevTools is confusing! There's so much functionality packed in such a small UI. Did you know that Ch... Read more -
Copy an elements styles
You can extract all the styles of an element in one go by using the Copy styles feature. No need to... Read more -
Use document.designMode to spell check your webpage
Amelia Bellamy-Royds shared a really cool tip to spell-check a webpage's content from DevTools: Ope... Read more -
Visualize and debug CSS cascade layers
CSS cascade layers is a CSS feature that allows web developers to define their CSS styles in multipl... Read more -
Automatically get issues your site has with performance, accessibility, security, compatibility, and others.
Edge has a very useful Issues panel that can automatically list a lot of different issues with your... Read moreCategories: Supported by: -
Take a screenshot of part of a webpage from the Command Menu
The Command menu in Edge and Chrome is a great way to do many of the things you can do in DevTools w... Read more -
Quickly reference React components in the console
Zee shared a great tip on Twitter if you are working with React and have the React DevTools extensio... Read more -
Start your HTML and CSS prototypes in the browser directly
Sometimes I need a blank canvas to prototype an idea with HTML and CSS. Something outside of the web... Read more -
Fix low color contrast issues
With DevTools you can detect low color contrast issues which is great. But Chrome DevTools, Edge Dev... Read more -
Debug popups that appear on hover using the debugger statement
In Debug popups that appear on hover using JS we described how to pause the debugger to inspect popu... Read more