1963035 - Retain inspection highlight during screenshot capture.

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

Attachment: A Screenshot Of The Desired

Steps to reproduce

1. Inspect an element.

2. Hover over the corresponding DOM entry to highlight it within the viewport.

3. Invoke "Control" + "Shift" + "S" to invoke the screenshot manager.

4. Attempt to capture the screenshot.

Actual results

The highlight disappears when the mouse moves off the DOM entry to capture the screenshot.

Expected results

It should remain.

Comment 1

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

Attachment: A Screenshot Of The Current

Comment 2

[Sam Foster [:sfoster] (he/him)]

Moving to devtools.

Comment 3

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

Attachment: A Screenshot Of The “Developer Tools”’ Screenshotter With This Functionality

Moving to devtools.

On that note, this actually appears to function if one utilises the Developer Tools screenshot utility instead. However, ascertaining how to reproduce it has been difficult.

Is this an unexpected discrepancy, or potentially useful functionality? I presume that depends upon how both are implemented – whether they should share more code.

Comment 4

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Attachment: Current Workaround

I suggest to use the highlight button (dotted square) button next to the element selector in the ruleview to achieve the same.

This will work with the regular Firefox screenshot feature.

Comment 5

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Hi there,

See suggestion above, let us know if that helps.

Comment 6

[Mr. Beedell, Roke Julian Lockhart (RJLB)]

Comment on attachment 9492972 [details]
Current Workaround

I suggest to use the highlight button (dotted square) button next to the element selector in the ruleview to achieve the same.

Thanks: that works for me. It's slightly less intuitive, but more powerful, and similarly convenient. Should we close this ticket?

Comment 7

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Great! Yes I think we can close it.