

Want to know the hex color code of Facebook’s signature blue color? Or are you curious as to why the links in Google’s black bar seem to act as blocks, rather than text links? Developer tools is the way to find out! Try It Out For Yourself You can use it on any site you like, not just your own, and play around with the look of the site and see how it uses HTML and CSS to look the way it does. Especially if it’s a website where you want as many happy visitors as possible, you don’t want to take the chance of a potential reader arriving on the site while it’s not looking its best.īut that’s not the only reason why developer tools is a great utility to get familiar with. You could use developer tools to preview any changes you want to make to your website before you actually go and make the changes. Why Use Developer Tools to Edit a Website?Įspecially if you’re not 100% sure what you’re doing, if you’re making HTML or CSS changes to a live website, it’s a good idea to test them out using developer tools first, to make sure you don’t get any unexpected results. On Firefox the feature is called Firebug, on Opera it’s Dragonfly, and Safari and even Internet Explorer have developer tools too. On Google Chrome, simply right-click any element on a page and select ‘Inspect Element’ to bring it up. But the utility is still incredibly useful, as you’ll find out. There’s no way of saving your changes (other than taking a screenshot).
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Click the reload button, and all your changes will be gone.

Now, don’t get fooled into thinking that this actually makes permanent changes to the page online. The changes will show up instantly in your browser. How Does Developer Tools Edit a Website?ĭeveloper tools allows you to view the HTML source of a page, as well as all the CSS associated with each element, and edit the code as much as you like. It’s called ‘developer tools’ and it’s a little-known utility built into your browser. Even if you haven’t got your own website, you can still use developer tools to edit a website, as it works with any website you can view in your browser. Luckily, there’s a way to instantly preview HTML and CSS changes without them going live. If you want to edit a website you own, what if someone visits while your site is ‘getting changed’? They’re not going to like what they see. You are making changes to the copy that got sent to your browser, not the actual website is this may help I use Permanent Inspect Element for deleting HTML and I use the stylus chrome extention for changing CSS on pages for a quick idea of it you make a new css script in stylus uncheck usercss the scripts go like this (Only An Example Dont Use This One). Your browser gets sent the information to display it. The code for your website is on a server. When your Developer Tools pane opens, it should automatically highlight that sentence You can't permanently change a website using Inspect Element. Choose the file and click Open or OkayĪll you have to do is right-click on the part of the page you want to change, then click the Inspect or Inspect Element link that appears on the bottom of the right-click menu. In the file window, locate the HTML version of the page in the folder where you saved it.
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How to save inspect element changes permanent-~-~-~~-~-ow to open a web page in your text editor From within the Text Editor, choose File then Open, just as you would with a word processor.

In todays video / tutorial I will show you how to permanently save inspect element changes forever with Javascript Injections. Home How to use inspect element to change text permanently
