1755731 - Inspect option on developer tools does not work well with framesets

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1755266

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[Hugo Ortega]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:98.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/98.0

Steps to reproduce:

The inspect option of developer tools has an issue when using on pages with framesets. Since version 97 the DOM inspector does not auto-select the node of element. The only way to synchronize the view is changing to the frame.

Steps to reproduce:

• Secondary click on any element of page using frameset (not iframes).
• Use the "Inspect" option.

Actual results:

The developer tools shows the CSS properties and layout of the element, but the DOM tree is not synchronized with the clicked element and the node is not selected.

Expected results:

The clicked element should be auto-selected in the DOM tree.

The only way to auto-select the element is first change to the element's parent frame using the button in the toolbar, and then using de inspect option menu or the inspect button in the toolbar.

This works well with iframes, but not with pages with framesets. I know that frames ares deprecated, but there are many sites and webapps still using them.

Comment 1

[BugBot [:suhaib / :marco/ :calixte]]

The Bugbug bot thinks this bug should belong to the 'DevTools::Inspector' component, and is moving the bug to that component. Please revert this change in case you think the bot is wrong.

Comment 2

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Thanks, looks similar to Bug 1755266