What is the use of firebug's "Open With Editor" function?
I'd say it'll allow you to visualize a file / feed with an editor -- which means better searching features, syntax-highlighting, better-ability to copy code...
But it means you have to configure the editors, so firebug knows how to call one -- especially, so it knows how to pass it the data.
Edit after the comment : no, I don't see it allows you to see your modifications into the website -- but it's, I think, easier to go through the HTML code this way, with the editor you're using in your every-day life as a developer.
For example, you can check what's said in this article : Check Edit HTML Code with Firebug -- check the Editing With Firebug section.
And to use it, you have to :
select something like "Open with editor > Configure editors", and, in the dialog box, set the path to your editor
and, then, to edit some HTML page, select "Open with editor > name of your editor"
(The labels may not be exactly those : I'm using the french version...)
You can use cssUpdater to save your modified css directly after you have changed the property in FireBug -> http://www.cssUpdater.com
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Generally new to web design and watching some tutorials on creating some backend for a project, getting really tired of writing out the manually, I see youtubers do .classname and then the class with the div appears, but for some reason it isn't working for me? Any help would be appreciated.
Also, would it be easier to switch to Sublime, my buddies think that it is the way to go.
Cheers.
Go to settings
Go to emmet under the Extensions section.
Click on 'Edit in settings.json'.
Write the following inside the 'emmet.includeLanguages' tag. Otherwise, paste the whole statement.
"emmet.includeLanguages": { "javascript":"javascriptreact" }
Save the settings.json file.
Those videos are likely using emmet. VS Code includes built-in support for emmet completions in html files. For example, typing .classname in an html file will trigger an emmet suggestion that expands to <div class="classname"></div> when you accept it
If you do not see this working:
Make sure the document is in the html language mode
Try manually triggering suggestions after .classname using ctrl+space
Make sure you have not disabled Emmet
I tried everything written in the answers but it wouldnt work, I had to do the following;
go to settings in the bottom left, search for 'emmet'
scroll down to and tick:
'Trigger expansions on Tab'
then it works by typing .divClassName + Tab
Check out this Cheat Sheet for VSC:
Cheat sheet for VSC
Ensure that VScode recognises your file as HTML5 or CSS file. In my case I had emmet enabled, but while I could get emmet abbreviation in a CSS file, they wouldn't work in an HTML file. The issue was that I also had Django template extension installed and the file had Django template code as well, hence VScode considered the file as Django template file, not HTML. You can check this the status bar at the bottom of VScode. Once I changed the file from Django template to HTML by clicking on Django Template in the VScode status bar, emmet started working.
The above answers didn't help me because VS code already came with Emmet installed, but I was missing the information on how to actually trigger it.
For an html element
Type the element e.g. div, h1, whatever, then press tab to complete it
For a class
Type the class name beginning with a dot then press tab to complete it.
For example type .myclass and hit tab and you'll get <div class="myclass"></div>
Note: if your class has spaces, use a dot in place of the space (e.g. for "my great class", you should type ".my.great.class" and hit tab)
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This information is from here
Tried mentioned thing from emmet vs code document
go-to .vscode >> settings.json
add line "emmet.triggerExpansionOnTab": true
it worked for me for reference : Emmet in visual studio code
Im using atom.io for some time now and really like it. there is just one thing im missing. I used to use brackets and sublime before and they both had a feature where you could create the basic structure of a html documents by just typing html.
this would just set the html, head and body tag. created the charset meta, title and link to css file.
I create a lot of html files a day so it would be really helpfull if I know the shortcode or the package which supports this!
You're looking for autocomplete-snippets.
Simply type html and press Enter
Here's a terrible GIF to prove it:
There is a nice Plugin, called emmet: https://atom.io/packages/emmet
When you got that, you just have to type ! -> tab in an empty document. You get pretty much the same result as #hatchet GIF.
If you have disabled the autocomplete functionality mentioned in the currently accepted answer, or want more flexibility than that allows, there is a file-templates package:
https://atom.io/packages/file-templates
Here are some basic instructions.
To install the package: edit->preferences->install->file-templates.
To save the template: packages->new template from this file.
To open a new file with that template, just hit ctrl-alt-n and
select it.
Make sure your file has .html added on the end of its name.
Then go back into Atom, type HTML, and press enter. Your boilerplate should appear. Solved my problem instantly!
If we install Emmet package we are not getting the boiler plate code. So I disabled emmet and it is working fine for me.
!tab is the command u seek. But it won't work unless you create a file and save it with the html extension...
So go create a new file in the directory u want, call it index.html and now go type !tab
It should work 100%, if not be sure u have emmet installed.
Normally, you can right-click on a method and select "Go To Definition" (F12) or "Find All References" (SHIFT+F12). You can even go to the definition of a css class from your aspx page by pressing F12 (if your cursor is over the CssClass name).
Is there a similar shortcut for finding all the references of a css class from an external stylesheet? My reason for asking is that I have a stylesheet containing a bunch of css classes that may or may not be in use anymore, and I'd like to know which ones are actually being called without having to read through my code line by line.
Also, I've tried the Quick Find (CTRL+F) tool to search for a particular css class. It doesn't turn up any results even for classes that are in use, so either I'm not using it right or it doesn't bother checking my aspx page for whatever reason. (I suspect it's the former!)
PS I'm using 2010 Express edition.
You can use CTRL+SHIFT+F to bring up the Find and Replace dialog. In there, make sure to verify that the search scope is set to Entire Solution, and try that.
I want to add some javascript in wordpress, something like
if(iNum==0&&iNum+1!=l)
It shows up wrong, in the source code I found & became & how do I solve it? Thanks.
if(iNum==0&\& iNum+1!=l)
Where did you put that code?
To insert arbitrary javascript code, you need to use HTML mode in post / page edit window.
To do that, just click on 'HTML' just above editor window (to the right of Upload/Insert tools)
When I'm working with CSS, I'll often test in a browser - say, Chrome - right click an element, click Inspect Element, and edit the CSS right there. The use of arrow keys to change things like margin and padding makes lining things up super easy.
It's not too hard to then take those changes and apply them to the CSS file, but it would be cool if I could just right click the selector in the inspector and select "export" or "copy", and have the contents available in my clipboard.
Does something like this exist?
I have found the answer to this, at least as of Chrome v14.
While in the Elements section, just click on the "filename:linenumber" link next to the CSS rules. The CSS file that shows up will contain all of the modifications.
This place exactly:
In Chrome, you can right-click a CSS file in the Sources tab and click "Local Modifications"
This shows you all of your local changes. Each revision is timestamped and you can rollback to any previous revision.
See the Live Editing and Revision History section of this tutorial.
Firediff is a Firebug add-on that tracks changes done in Firebug. It logs everything you'll do in the HTML pane (great) but also your brief use of the Web Developer Toolbar extension (not so great), say Shift-Ctrl-F to obtain a font-size information in px.
I have seen a Firebug extension in Chrome but didn't test it, I use Firediff with Firefox.
In Chrome there is also the Changes tab in the console drawer that displays all the modifications of CSS. It's not an export, but at least it is very convenient to quickly grasp what has changed.
I built a Chrome extension that does exactly this.
It's called StyleURL - it takes whatever CSS changes you made in Chrome Inspector and outputs valid CSS as the diff: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/styleurl/emplcligcppnlalfjknjbanolhlnkmgp
Here's an example where I added "padding-bottom: 50px" to this page:
It's open-source and on GitHub too: https://github.com/Jarred-Sumner/styleurl-extension
Both Firefox and Chrome support this feature now, but worth to note that in some platforms if not all Chrome does not show it by default, you need to enable the "Changes" view to see it (in my Kubuntu Linux 20.04 it wasn't by default), here is how you can enable it: go to the "Customize and Control DevTools" button in the Developer Tools bar > "More tools" > "Changes", then the tab will appear at the button:
In Firefox there is no need to enable it, but if you come from the Chrom* world may be hard to find it. Just check the last section in the right at the "Inspector" tab:
I've suggested this product on SO before (I'm not affiliated with them in any way).
http://www.skybound.ca/
Excellent product. Sounds like exactly what you're looking for and much more.
EDIT: Several other answers here have mentioned Google Chrome's ability to link to your local files (which is very very cool). Check out the other answers!
If you edit external CSS, then you can drag its latest revision out of the Resources panel into any text editor that supports DnD (see http://www.webkit.org/blog/1463/web-inspector-styles-enhanced/, the "Persisting Changes" section for more detail.) You can also revert your CSS changes to any earlier version of the stylesheet resource (in the right-click popup menu of any stylesheet revision.)
As mentioned by cloudworks, the answer to this has changed. This can now be accomplished rather well by the Chrome DevTools Autosave extension. This tool tracks CSS and JavaScript changes made within the Chrome Developer Tools console, and saves them back to local files. For instructions to install and setup the extension, please refer to the guide written by #addyosmani on his blog, here.
There is also a handy screencast which details the extension rather well.
With Workspaces you can have your CSS saved as you type them in your inspector (in Chrome). The problem is that every change is automatically saved and there's no way to disable this feature, as pointed in http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/revolutions2013/ and Disable automatic saving of CSS changes in Chrome Developer Tools.
My in-beta-soon product LIVEditor does this exactly.
To let you understand it easily, you can think of Firebug's inspector is embedded into your text editor.
That way you don't have to make the changes manually again in your code editor after you tweaking it using Firebug or Webkit's developer tools.
If you're using the Firefox stock dev tools you can edit the css directly in the tools dialog - click the CSS viewport button (that's the button at the top with the {} symbol) and edit your css directly. It will update in realtime in the browser and when you're done just copy-paste it directly into your css file. Nice!
To add an answer for Safari specifically — it's kind of possible.
When you edit CSS in the Styles section in the Inspector for an existing CSS file, you can hit Cmd-S to re-save the entire file with the changes. However, if you're using a meta language like Sass / preprocessor / generating your CSS with bundling etc, I don't think this really solves that problem, though it may be possible with CSS source maps.
When you edit CSS at the top of the Styles section, under Style Attribute to add inline styles (not tied to an existing CSS file), it doesn't seem possible to easily export all of those changes. For now, I'm just copying and pasting the overrides manually for each element.
The official Apple docs are a little dated but found here: Web Inspector Tutorial - Editing Code to Change Your Webpage.
In Chrome, in the css inspector you can click and hold the + button, then choose to add your changes to the inspector-stylesheet. It's not as convenient as directly editing in your css-selectors, but what you write will all be in inspector-stylesheet.css