If you want to look at the CSS of other people's websites (to steal learn from them), Firebug lets you inspect the prettified CSS:
But in Chrome 16, you only get the minified CSS as it was served out:
Is there a way to get Chrome to prettify the CSS?
In the newer versions there is a "format" button that prettifies the source:
(only just realised myself :P )
The Developer's console shows the file as served. If you want a human-readable version, copy-paste the code to http://www.codebeautifier.com/.
If you use the Elements tab, the applied CSS properties are also shown per element.
I recommend Quick Source Viewer, which is an extension to chrome and requires no human copy-pasting (acts sort of like an extra chrome dev-tool).
It can show you the source of the current page formatted and colour coded.
It's pretty powerful, showing all 'sources' of the page, be it css, js or html. Even things like inline css/js can be viewed individually (with injected code highlighted). And the best part is it prettifies all of them, even the css (which chrome's dev tools still refuses to do).
You may want to checkout Pretty Print: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/prettyprint/nipdlgebaanapcphbcidpmmmkcecpkhg?hl=en
After installing, when you view a minified CSS or JS file, it will appear (after a moment) un-minified.
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I know the question itself is illegal - asking to steal someone's home. :)
Anyways, it's a situation when a developer's logic is not working actually. With Browser's Developer Tool, I got the site's CSS. I located the #font-face code inside the main.css.
Here's what I got:
main.css:
path: http://www.example.com/assets/css/main.css
code:
#font-face {
font-family: 'the_font';
src: url("../fonts/fontname/fontname.eot");
bla bla
font-style: normal;
font-weight: normal;
}
So, according to the code the font file is in a folder named "fontname" under the "fonts" folder. And from the path's direction we can guess that the font's location is:
http://www.example.com/assets/fonts/fontname/fontname.eot
But it's generating a 404 page.
Why NOT the path's logic is working?
Supposing the CSS file isn't bad (i.e. the font really is loaded). You may use the developper tools of your browser.
For example in Chrome : hit F12 to open the developer tools and then select the Network or Resources tab and reload the page. You'll see the font file listed.
I use multiple tools for extracting Css, depending on the website.
Specifically for fonts, this tool works amazing: FontfaceNinja - comes with 3 browser extensions to pick from.
But sometimes is not enough:
CssViewer is another option, nice design, easy to use, it extracts only the Css for the element hovered - almost the same as Chrome Developer Tools, But much more readable in my opinion. It's a Chrome extension only. Install it from here: CssViewer
The tool i use the most for this job is CSSSteal, it gives the same level of details as chrome developer tools, cascading of styles from parent to it's child - all that, but because you can easy copy and paste the Css, is much easier to use for this purpose then the default Developer Tools. Good tool for complex Css migrations.. when the fonts and other css properties override each other like crazy.. get it form here: CssSteal
Note: After installation of CssSteal, restart the browser - then make sure you open the Tab that contains the Styles (on the right) - not the Elements one - as you can see above.
Hope that helps :)
The best way so far
You can actaully do rightclick: inspect > Application (on the top tabs) > Frames (scroll on the left tabs) Then you can find a Font section where all loaded fonts are listed. It lists all that are loaded in any possible secure way.
Further more, It also previews them on the right, to make it even easier
Then you can right-click on the one you chose and click open in a new tab, and it downloads it. Then you can add a .woff at the end of the filename and use it anywhere. (you can check its extension on the bottom of the preview too)
I created a test extension, to change a few things and maybe add some features to Firefox built-in devtools.
I set up a basic extension, with content css and the usual files, and chrome.manifest:
content devtooltweaks content/
style chrome://browser/content/devtools/framework/toolbox.xul chrome://devtooltweaks/content/devToolStyle.css
Although I can go to "chrome://devtooltweaks/content/devToolStyle.css" and see that file exists in the browser, DOM inspector doesn't show the style applying, I can't see the stylesheet listed either. It's been a long time since I did extension development, is there a step I'm missing here? Or is it not permitted to change the built in dev tools, similar to how it's not permitted in Chrome?
It looks like the style is imported, but not shown as a stylesheet in the DOM Inspector, I also may not have been using firefox -purgecaches. It's working now.
I want to edit the class "top-labels" from the shopping cart page but I can't find it in the css stylesheet. How can I get around this?
Can anyone help?
Cheers
Use an A-grade modern web browser, like Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Find the developer tools for your choice. You might install Firebug for Firefox for example.
With that, right-click on the element you're interested in, say the one with the class top-labels. The browser tools will tell you exactly which CSS file contains the definition of the class, and the line number.
It cannot really be much easier. You can also change the CSS in your browser in that definition and see what the changes do, live. That is invaluable.
I think we need more info but from what you've said I'd guess that the top-labels class is either located in a different style sheet or is an inline style on the page.
You could try adding the top-labels style into the stylesheet you're using and add the styles you want to it that way.
I've been editing CSS using Firebug in Firefox, but recently noticed that Chrome is rendering my pages much quicker (with scrolling, interactive elements etc) and wanted to switch to it.
I found Chrome shows the computed CSS and what attributes are overruled in the stack and I can alter them one-by-one but what I liked about Firebug was that I could just edit the entire stylesheet in a real-time text editor. Is this same feature somewhere in the Chrome developer panel, or is there a Chrome extension that lets me alter the stylesheets this way?
In current versions of Chrome (I'm running 16) you don't need any external add-ons.
Right click anywhere in your page, choose inspect element, then in the window that shows up click the Resources tab, then in the left panel select the stylesheet you want to edit. To begin editing you need to first double click, over the css text.
Try StyleBot. It can also save edited CSS.
You can edit any property or create a new property by double click on an entry or empty space in Elements panel's styles pane. There is no way to edit entire css file just as text at the moment.
I use live.js! As you edit your css file it shows you the results realtime in your browser without having to refresh. http://livejs.com/
I've spend countless hours testing almost every Chome extension i could find (including stylebot) to mimic the live CSS editing of Firebug in Firefox. None to date have that same workflow. Live.js is the closest.
Have you tried the Web Developer Toolbar extension's CSS->Edit CSS tool?
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm
Web Developer Toolbar for Chrome > CSS > Edit CSS
there's a semi-working firebug extension but it's not exactly perfect yet.
User Firebug Lite. It's also available as an extension to Chrome.
You are looking for this - Live Stylesheets
I wrote the LiveCSSEditor 4 years ago for exactly this reason. FireBug in Firefox would let me free-hand write CSS into the page, but nothing else in Chrome would.
I still use it today and have yet to find a better solution. It may work for you as well. :)
I would like to apply a CSS stylesheet to all page views in a Firefox browser using a menu option and be able to toggle this when required. (The functionality I want exists in IE: Tools | Internet Options | Accessibility | Format Documents Using my Stylesheet (although I think this may affect pages outside of simply IE).
You could use the file userContent.css lying within the directory named chrome in your Mozilla Firefox profiles directory. There is also an example file named userContent-example.css.
you can use Stylish, you can define global styles in firefox and ability to switch it on and off fast from Firefox.
Usage page.
Global styles, you can see code and how it is done.
There is another Firefox addon called Platypus which which adds a toolbar for editing site styles. It does require you to install Grease Monkey.
I just installed Stylish and my first impression is that is nicer than Platypus, especially when it comes to sharing your styles with others. But I'll reverse my judgment as to which I think is better when I have more time to compare them. :)