1133612 - Search input box in Developer Tools does not work

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 835896

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[Russ]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.9; rv:36.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/36.0
Build ID: 20150212154903

Steps to reproduce:

* Visit any website e.g. http://trademe.co.nz
* Go: "Open Menu" (top right-side of browser toolbar)
* Select: "Developer"
* Select: "Inspector"
* Locate a DOM element in the source e.g. "main-box-categories"
* Copy/paste "main-box-categories" into the search box at the top of the Developer toolbar
* Hit "Enter" on your computer's keyboard


Actual results:

* Hitting "Enter" on my computer's keyboard does nothing.


Expected results:

* Hitting "Enter" on my computer's keyboard moves the caret / focus in the DOM Inspector up/down to the website's source where the element with id="main-box-categories" is found, like Firebug does.

Comment 1

[[:Aleksej]]

I am not sure how it is supposed to work, so maybe reproduced with 2015-02-22-03-02-06-mozilla-central-firefox-38.0a1.ru.linux-x86_64.

Comment 2

[[:Aleksej]]

It seems to search only what it autocompletes, which is element names.
Maybe it's related to bug 835896

Comment 3

[Panos Astithas (he/him) [:past] (please ni?)]

The search box in the inspector expects CSS selector queries:

https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Tools/Page_Inspector/How_to/Examine_and_edit_HTML#Search_box

Bug 835896 is about adding the ability to do plain text search.