How to Use Google Chrome Inspect Element Tool

GoodLayers · 79K views · 2012 · 5:04

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Why Stack Overflow recommends it

Stack Overflow users link it when answering CSS layout questions and telling beginners to inspect elements to debug heights, margins and generated HTML.

Recommended by 2 people across 2 different months, 2015 to 2016.

What it is

A short screencast from GoodLayers showing how to use Chrome's Inspect Element tool to view and edit a page's HTML and CSS live. The demo uses a WordPress theme and notes that edits made in the inspector are temporary.

What people said

Recommends jsruok · 2015-07 · Stack Overflow · on “Bootstrap col-md-6 gives different heights”

Have you tried an inspector tool? [this video] (Your screenshot showed Safari. I'd recommend Chrome for this purpose.)

Recommends Jacob Goh · 2016-09 · Stack Overflow · on “Having issues with css margins and div image constraints, would love some advice or tips”

no good way to isolate the code. CSS is applied using class/id usually. Try to make sure that the elements has unique class/id and apply css accordingly. And learning to inspect element [this video] will help you tremendously

Cites S M Abrar Jahin · 2016-02 · Stack Overflow · on “How to get only html contents from the DOM after removing angularjs code”

Surely, it is a easy task. If u include AngularJS [LINK] in your page, then after the page being loaded, it automatically converts the code (with angular tags) to plain HTML code. So after the page being loaded, it is a complete HTML page. Then if u can use any kind of JS (Plain JS or any library like jQuery [LINK] etc.) for extracting the DOM element. One example is given here- [LINK] Hope u have your answer. Update- U can inspect any page's element's like this- [this video]