Safari/Chrome Developer Tools indicate that a CSS rule is overridden by something else by striking it through, as shown in the image.
Sometimes I find myself in a situation where I can not figure out from the CSS files what causes this rule to be ignored. But surely Safari itself must know as it strikes it through.
Is there a way to know what overrides such a rule?
Look at the one which isn't striked out, higher up on the list.
Alternatively, view the computed styles. They will be the definitive applied styles.
When you inspect an element, you can show the 'box'. Just bottom of that, you have a 'filter' which should show you every properties being applied to your element.
If you click on a property, it will give you the file and the line number.
Developer Tools will list all rules for an element. Just read through all the CSS rules that apply, and check for a non-struck-through one with the same name.
Go to Elements >> Computed and you'll get the stylesheet that defines the rule you're looking for.
Go to the Computed tab of Chrome Developer tools. Find wanted property and expand details.
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I have an element which receives inline style from some js function.
I found the function.
but wanted to ask, is there a way to find out what function put that inline style?
(in "computed" tab, I saw all the css files which affected this element, but inline styleshs the title "element.style" , is there any other way?
Using Chrome dev tools, you can add breakpoint on elements when any modification happens to them.
Right click after inspecting the element, and select Break on. Now whenever that element gets modified, Dev tools will go to the source of the function doing that job.
No, in devtools there's no in-box solution for that.
But you can use good old debug messages to track who sets what.
When I use Chrome Developer Tool to inspect an element, the height property is greyed out. From here
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/iterate/inspect-styles/#live-edit-a-do-node
it means i can't edit it.
But my question is why I can't edit it?
And how can I find out which style in style set this property? With other properties, I can expand it? but for this greyed out one? I can't expand it.
This is typically caused by the user agent style-sheet. You can override this usually by reordering your CSS or with a CSS normalizer (like normalize.css or reset.css, though these can add unnecessary bloat to your code if you don't need all of it).
It is important to note the order in which your style-sheets are invoked because CSS is by definition, cascading and the lowest definitions will take precedence.
In brute force situations, and only when there are no other clear solutions, you can use !important declarations.
I've looked in Firebug but can't find why a CSS background property is being cancelled out. I've looked if there is a more specific rule but nothing. Please find the image snippet, as follows:
Maybe somebody has a suggestion?
Firebug will make you think a shorthand property like background or margin (maybe font) was cancelled out when in fact only one property was modified by a later/more specific rule
Use the Computed tab (close to the Style one) to see what's going on.
For each individual property, you'll be able to see which one is more specific and which ones were defined somehow but are cancelled out for real.
It may be a rule with !important modifier for example (meh) or usually a margin-top over a margin and the 3 other properties still with the values set by margin.
Well, this is pretty straightforward. If Chrome's Developer Tools is showing me that a style is overridden, how to see what CSS rule is overriding it?
I want to know if is there anything like "Show me what overrides this".
OBS: Please, don't point me to Firebug.
Use the Computed Style panel of the element inspector. Expand the property of interest to see the list of applicable rules, and which one won.
You can simply look at the ones with the same name which aren't striked out, remember the listing is by importance.
Or you can view the computed styles. They will be the actually applied styles.
crtrl + shift + c and inspect the element. Then find the style without a line through it, in the box in the down right corner.
the override is in most cases at the top (and without a line through it, as this style is the "winning" one).
Firebug is great, and allows me to see all the CSS applied to an element in the DOM that you select, but either you can:
a) View it line by line, as defined in the CSS, in the applied order (very useful but not what I'm looking for) or
b) View it "computed", which is all CSS rules and the values that this element has.
What I want is a tool or extension that allows me to select an element and would show me, in copy-pastable form, all the CSS that's been defined for that element. If the element has font-style:normal just because it's the default for that element, I don't want that there (Firebug shows all this in computed view).
Basically I want to be able to:
I see an element I'd like to replicate on a website (like a button) exactly in my own website.
Use this tool to get a bunch of CSS applied to that element.
Paste on my own CSS.
Get the same looking element in my website. Yay!
Any ideas?
Switch to Chrome default element inspector (press F12), it has all that you need. You'll find everything in the Computed Style panel, including a useful "Show inherited" checkbox
I know the question is almost 4 years old, but if there is someone looking for it today, there's a Chrome extension that handles it. https://github.com/kdzwinel/SnappySnippet
It adds a new tab in Chrome Inspector and you just need to click a button to get all html and css of the selected element and its children. Then you can export it to codepen, jsfiddle and jsbin, or copy and paste.
Google Chrome has tools like Firebug built in called "Chrome Developer Tools". It is extremely powerful from my experience and I switched from Firefox/Firebug to Chrome about a year ago. There are several different ways to get the developer tools up. You can find detailed documentation at https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/overview
When you have the Chrome developer tools open to the elements tab with an element selected, you can expand the computed styles area on the right and see all styles that make up that element.
If the specific style has an expandable triangle to its left, you can find out what stylesheet and where the styling comes from.
You don't need any extensions for that, the built-in inspector in Firefox can do that. Right-click the element, choose "Inspect Element". Click the Style button in the bottom toolbar - and there it is, a sidebar with all the styles applied to that element.
I have tried to calculate it via window.getComputedStyle and it is needed to be optimized to shake out unnecessary style properties. https://github.com/aleen42/DOM-mirror
I've tried SnappySnippet and found CSSSteal to be much better. It will grab just the CSS, and will do so in the same format as the document has it, unlike SnappySnippet.
There's an API on window Object >> window.getComputedStyle(DOMElement). This is if we need to work with computed styles programmatically.
MDN Docs for window.getComputedStyle
Good Luck...
You can try this extension https://getcssscan.com/?ref=beautifulcheckboxes_header but it is not free. I found this while I was finding a solution.