My preferred CSS workflow (at least when tweaking existing CSS) is to edit directly in the browser using the 3-panel Inspector panel, then copy the edited styles to my stylesheet.
Sometimes I'll edit the styles for many elements and forget that I edited some element (since you can only see if it's edited AFAICT by selecting exactly that element and looking for rules with a green bar to the left). Then I'll fail to manually copy that element's style changes to my stylesheet and, on reload, lose the changes.
Is there somewhere I can see all the places where I've edited styles using Inspector -- including adding new rules -- so that I can copy them all at once?
The Firefox devtools now have a "Changes" tab with a Git-like panel showing all your changes.
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I would really love to see all my live css changes summarized somewhere in Chrome browser, there are a couple of question about this at SO, but nothing works for me. Especially this particular answers which seems to be the most straightforward way to achieve what I need.
Export CSS changes from inspector (webkit, firebug, etc)
I've changed a few css properties, but don't see anything in this tab:
FYI - I'm using webpack dev server to serve this page if that's relevant
Here is how I make my changes appear:
Once you select the element to modify click the + sign under the styles tab.
The new inspector style sheet appears under the changes tab in the left hand column. The right hand pane includes your new changes.
If you made css changes in the Inspect > Elements pane, and didn't happen to use the method of https://stackoverflow.com/a/69634283/6200445 , then one way to see the changes is to do a git compare of the DOM structures. Its not a perfect solution, but you can compare the dom structures (via edit HTML on ) in two commits, comparing some baseline (commit) with your live css changes (second commit)
In my case the git compare had a few irrelevant changes but it caught all my css changes.
My preferred CSS workflow (at least when tweaking existing CSS) is to edit directly in the browser using the 3-panel Inspector panel, then copy the edited styles to my stylesheet.
Sometimes I'll edit the styles for many elements and forget that I edited some element (since you can only see if it's edited AFAICT by selecting exactly that element and looking for rules with a green bar to the left). Then I'll fail to manually copy that element's style changes to my stylesheet and, on reload, lose the changes.
Is there somewhere I can see all the places where I've edited styles using Inspector -- including adding new rules -- so that I can copy them all at once?
The Firefox devtools now have a "Changes" tab with a Git-like panel showing all your changes.
Is there a way to quickly copy all of the css code of the inspected element in google chrome?
I found that while designing, it's sometimes easier to change the css on-the-fly via inspect to figure out correct pixel distances, rather than changing in the code and refreshing the page.
Does that capability even exists?
thanks to steveax's comment I was able to find the answer, which I will share with you
Once the inspected element has been edited, going to the sources tab and choosing the appropriate CSS where that element is defined, the edited attributes will appear there, which you can copy regularly..
Obviously, a copy straight from the style window would be more comfortable..
Maybe I'm just a Firebug newbie, or maybe there is some other better tool? But I'm trying to easily find which of several linked css files, defines a specific element's style.
For instance in a production environment I can pinpoint that a style named left-tab is being applied to a specific element, and it renders properly. In the development environment the same style is applied within the HTML, but is not being rendered the same way as in production.
The production and development environments each include 9 css files. I want to easily find which one defines the style left-tab. Using the CSS tab I can open and even (temporarily) edit each of these, but how do I search through these? Ctrl-F searches the HTML document itself, as opposed to the CSS contained within the Firebug pane.
Activate the style tab in the right panel "Style | Computed | Layout | DOM ". For every CSS rule, there will be a blue link "mystyles.css (line 22). You can quickly jump to a rule by activating Element Inspector (The box w/ mouse on the far left hand, hotkey is Ctrl + Shift + C. Highlighting over your element with Element Inspector (you can also click on it) will show you all the CSS rules that apply (or were overwritten).
When you right click an element and click 'inspect element' the box in the bottom right will display CSS styles for that element, just above each one it tells you which CSS file it came from and what line.
I'm trying to get a specific generated CSS for an area on one of my sites to use this CSS on the homepage from one of my sites.
I used all types of soft and FF add-ons to get the complete CSS for that specific area. However, they do not combine the CSS as 1.
I still have to copy/paste and have a chance of getting duplicate-loaded CSS.
My hope is that there exists a code snippet that reads the CSS between 2 divs and generate a .css file on the fly so I can use the generated CSS in another project.
(The reason I ask this is because there are over 4000 lines of CSS loaded from different CSS files.)
If you inspect an element (right click on it, "Inspect Element") in Chrome there's a styles window on the right, underneath that is Computed Style, this includes everything non-standard about that element including all ancestors properties that made it that way.
Using the styles listed under there, you can get everything together that made the style you're seeing.