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Draw a box around all elements to debug your CSS and page structure
Simple, yet powerful, * { outline: 1px solid red; } is a useful debugging trick that helps understanding the page structure, finding overflow bugs or understand why elements are being pushed away for no apparent reason.
In Edge, Chrome, Firefox and Safari:
- Go to the Elements panel (in Chrome, Edge or Safari) or Inspector panel (in Firefox).
- Click the
+(new style) icon in the Styles or Rules sidebar. - Add the rule
{ outline: 1px solid red; }to the CSS Selector*.
In Polypane:
- Press
ctrl/cmd + dto automatically add outlines around all elements.
And voila! All elements are outlined and you can understand what's going on.
