721593 - Keyboard Shortcuts to toggle Inspector Rule View and HTML View Should Appear on Tooltips

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect, P3)

Description

[Jason Grlicky [:grlicky]]

Feature Requests:
- A keyboard shortcut to toggle the HTML View
- A keyboard shortcut to toggle the Rule View

Use case:
I often find myself using the keyboard shortcut for the Inspector to inspect an element on the page with the specific intention to either look at what CSS styles are affecting this element, or how this element fits into the structure of the page.

How shortcuts would facilitate this:
By having a shortcut I could hit after I've entered Inspector mode, I wouldn't have to mouse all the way over to the "HTML" or "Style" buttons to open those views.

Comment 1

[Kevin Dangoor]

There are keyboard shortcuts for these, and they're now documented here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Tools/Page_Inspector

Granted those aren't amazingly discoverable. Perhaps the shortcuts could be on the tooltips for the buttons?

(Also, my hope would be the ultimately the command line in the developer toolbar will have an easily discoverable way to toggle these panels).

Comment 2

[Jason Grlicky [:grlicky]]

Ah, thanks for the info, Kevin! Yes, they should definitely be made available on the tooltip - I'll change the name of this bug to reflect that! :D

Comment 3

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

This is a Mac only problem (no accesskey).

Comment 4

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

triage, filter on centaur

Comment 5

[Paul Rouget [:paul]]

We can't toggle these panels anymore.

Bug triage, filter on PINKISBEAUTIFUL