1556241 - 3 Features Request for "Inspect Element"

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Inspector, enhancement)

Description

[Saad Shamsaee]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/68.0

Steps to reproduce:

Many times when i want to save a web page, its need to remove many elements.

Actual results:

"Inspect Element" part in Firefox is good but have some lacks for easy and fast editing.

Expected results:

Features i want:

1. select continuously elements (for example many <p> </p><p> </p>.......) with select with mouse cursor and hold shift key.
2. when we click on 'Select an element....' be possible to when we move the mouse cursor on element and press delete key, firefox delete element quickly, without need to click on element 's code.
3. be possible to move the mouse cursor and select several elements (even to continuously elements) by holding the control key and left click, then when we press delete key all selected elements will become delete quickly.

Thanks.

Comment 1

[Razvan Caliman [:rcaliman]]

1. select continuously elements (for example many <p> </p><p> </p>.......) with select with mouse cursor and hold shift key.

3. be possible to move the mouse cursor and select several elements (even to continuously elements) by holding the control key and left click, then when we press delete key all selected elements will become delete quickly.

It is not possible to implement points 1 and 3 without making deep structural changes to the rest of the Inspector. Selecting one element switches the context for the rest of the Inspector, for example to show the matching CSS Rules for that one element. We call this a Selection. Many more features are predicated on the existence of a single element selection at a time.

2. when we click on 'Select an element....' be possible to when we move the mouse cursor on element and press delete key, firefox delete element quickly, without need to click on element 's code.

I'm not sure I completely understand what you mean by "click on 'Select an element...'". If you're referring to the interactive Element picker (icon next to Inspector tab), then it is perhaps possible to add a handler to pressing the backspace or delete key in order to delete the focused element. If that's what you meant, please file another bug with just that request.