971723 - New highlight command that highlights all nodes matching a given selector

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 971662

(DevTools Graveyard :: Graphic Commandline and Toolbar, defect)

Description

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

Based on bug 971662, it should be possible (and useful!) to create a new command that highlights all nodes that match a given selector.

I originally wanted to deliver this as part of bug 971662 but there are problems left unsolved that would be better treated in a separate bug:

- once nodes have been highlighted, what happens when the DOM changes dynamically?
- once nodes have been highlighted, how should they be unhighlighted? Automatically after a given timeout? After calling a command?

The WIP patch in bug 971662 (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=8374749&action=edit) introduced 2 commands:
- highlight <selector>
- unhighlight

See an example video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pS5t_rDodpA

Comment 1

[Patrick Brosset <:pbro>]

I'll take care of this in bug 971662.