786568 - DOM inspector does not update when DOM is modified

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 762499

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[Eric Newport]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_1) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.82 Safari/537.1

Steps to reproduce:

1. Right click on the Firefox start page (about:home) around the empty area left of the Firefox logo -> Inspect element.

2. <div id="topSection"> should be selected.

3. Open Tools -> Web Developer -> Web console.

4. Type: document.getElementById('topSection').className = 'hello';


Actual results:

Notice the view of the DOM below does not update to reflect the new className you've added. 

Additionally, there doesn't seem to be a way to manually edit HTML elements (add attributes, add new HTML, etc) using the DOM inspector like you can in WebKit browsers.


Expected results:

DOM inspector should update with changes when changes are applied to it via JS.

Comment 1

[Alfred Kayser]

Bug 962499 is 'newer', but has already more content and WIP patch...