1280293 - Can't easily select unclickable elements for inspection

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1535310

(DevTools :: Inspector, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Hallvord R. M. Steen [:hallvors]]

Attachment: dt-selections.htm

If pages use positioning or pointer-events:none you often end up with elements that are invisible above the ones you want to inspect and/or the elements you want to inspect becoming unclickable. If the page is sufficiently complex, it can be pretty hard to find the element you're *actually* interested in.

Feature request: if Gecko and the inspector can detect that there are several "innermost" elements underneath the coordinates I clicked, it would be great if the inspector could explain this fact and allow me to pick which node I actually wanted. See attached test for a demo.

Comment 1

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

We discussed this today during inspector triage meeting, and decided that this would require more thinking.
I'm going to ping Matteo since he had some ideas about this.
Matteo: do you mind explaining the important aspects to be considered here.

Comment 2

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Inspector bug triage (filter on CLIMBING SHOES).