980424 - DevTools: Measure Distance between elements

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(DevTools :: Inspector, defect)

Description

[sys.sgx]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:27.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/27.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20140212131424

Steps to reproduce:

Based on this tool, http://www.sprymedia.co.uk/article/Unit, we should create a nice way to measure the distance between elements on a page. This should also help with bug 969566, as it would provide information for better printing dimensions of a page.

Comment 1

[sys.sgx]

Any news on this? Thanks

Comment 2

[Dane MacMillan [:danemacmillan]]

This would be a nice feature to have natively available in the Developer Tools. Currently, there is an addon called, MeasureIt (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/measureit/reviews/?src=api), which I use regularly enough. It has a fairly high install (163k), so there is certainly demand for the ability to measure the distances between different locations and elements on the page. This could be another well-fitted candidate for the ToolBox, if development of this is up for consideration.

Comment 3

[sys.sgx]

Totally agree with Dane. We should combine it with the new way to highlight elements through the inspector.

Comment 4

[J. Ryan Stinnett [:jryans] (Use needinfo, replies may be slow)]

Several measuring tools now exist in the tools and can be enabled from the options (gear icon).  Let's file new bugs to track additional features beyond what we have today.