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davej

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I have never gotten very good with using these tools. One situation that has annoyed me occasionally is when I have entered text into a field and hit submit only to have a website report an internal error has occurred. OK, my entry is sitting there on the screen, but it is now grayed out and is not selectable with the mouse, and although I have searched around in the developer tools I have not yet been able to find a way to extract my entered text (to preserve it while I reload the page). My usual browser is Firefox and I have installed Firebug and Web Developer (Chrispederick).

 

How do you normally find things that have been entered or created dynamically? View source obviously doesn't work.

 

Another somewhat similar situation is when I would like to search all the multitude of css files to find a particular class or id. Is there a way to search?

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In FF, try for dynamic code

Right click on page -> select all, or by just selecting part of the page you are interested in.

then right click again and you can now choose 'view selected source'

 

css

web developer ->CSS -> View CSS then use control F to find

 

it should list all css code be it external or inline in head section

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