Closed Bug 1231638 Opened 10 years ago Closed 10 years ago

Allow the developer to activate the layout inspector even if they don't hover the node in the inspector

Categories

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Product:
DevTools
Component:
Inspector
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 959073

People

(Reporter: m+mozilla, Unassigned)

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.11; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/45.0 Build ID: 20151207030210 Steps to reproduce: I know my title is unclear (feel free to change it) but… I would like to be able to activate the mode when you hover a node in the inspector, it shows the margin, padding, etc. I would like to be able to activate it even if I don't hover the node.
I've been talking about this several times in the recent past with various people (I think there are other bugs on file, not sure) and I agree this is useful. We should stick an new "lock highlighter" option in the context menu.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → NEW
Component: Untriaged → Developer Tools: Inspector
Ever confirmed: true
Version: 45 Branch → unspecified
Ah, I found the bug.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 10 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
Perfect Patrick, thanks. :) "lock highlighter" is what I wanted to mean.
Product: Firefox → DevTools
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