1129486 - [Devtools][Inspector] Can't inspect a children of a :active element

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 985517

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P2)

Description

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Attachment: testcase-active.html

STR:
1. load the attachment in Firefox.
2. Open the Inspector.
3. Find the link in the inspector, right click on it, enable ":active"
4. click on the <p> or the ::after to inspect their style while :active is set

=> the :active state is removed.

Suggested behavior:
* after 3, add a notice besides the "<a>" node to indicate that :active is set. This will make it easy to remember that it's set even when we navigate in the tree. Note that we already have one in the breadcrumb at the top, but I'm not sure it's enough.
* after 4, do not remove the :active state.
* possibly have a button in the breadcrumb line to reset all states.

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Thanks for filing!

This one seems to be fixed in Firefox 45 (ie, we have a state in the markup view AND this state is not removed when clicking on another element).

Closing as worksforme, please reopen if I'm wrong!

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Comment 2

[Julien Wajsberg [:julienw]]

Julian, when trying using the testcase, I see the state is removed when clicking on something other than an element: like on the text or the generated content.

Do you think this should be a separate bug or should we reopen this one?

Comment 3

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Good catch! Let's reopen this one.

Assigning P2, it's actually pretty easy to make the state disappear and should be fixed. 
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Comment 4

[Sebastian Zartner [:sebo]]

I believe, that's actually a duplicate of bug 985517. So, closing this one again.

Sebastian