{"id":32473,"date":"2018-01-18T03:01:12","date_gmt":"2018-01-17T17:01:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=32473"},"modified":"2018-01-14T19:51:16","modified_gmt":"2018-01-14T09:51:16","slug":"windows-web-browser-f12-development-tools-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/windows-web-browser-f12-development-tools-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Windows Web Browser F12 Development Tools Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 230px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a target=_blank href=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/wwbfdt.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 15px solid pink;\" alt=\"Windows Web Browser F12 Development Tools Primer Tutorial\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/Windows\/wwbfdt.gif\" title=\"Windows Web Browser F12 Development Tools Primer Tutorial\"  style=\"float:left;\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Windows Web Browser F12 Development Tools Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We can&#8217;t emphasise enough how important, and useful, are the modern &#8220;breed&#8221; of web browser &#8220;web inspectors&#8221;.  These useful tools are written by the web browser products to enhance the experience using that web browser, though, of course, they hope you never have to visit their accompanying &#8220;web inspectors&#8221; to nut out problems, because, of course their products are perfect &#8230; tee hee.<\/p>\n<p>We find the &#8220;web inspectors&#8221; great for nutting out CSS issues first and foremost, because they will all have an &#8220;Inspect HTML Element&#8221; piece of functionality (usually their top left icon) assisting the user &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>point at an HTML area of interest<\/li>\n<li>that\/those HTML element(s) get highlighted<\/li>\n<li>the user picks a CSS (or Styles) tab to show what CSS &#8220;rules the roost&#8221; (ie. it is hierarchical &#8230; Cascading Style Sheet)<\/li>\n<li>strategies, as needed, can be put in place, at the proper place, to remedy for the look the user is after, to achieve, as necessary<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Today, we&#8217;re visiting the Windows browsers &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Internet Explorer<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft Edge<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; regarding their &#8220;web inspectors&#8221;.  For both above, they are accessed via (perhaps an initial Alt-F to get the &#8220;old&#8221; menus back, as required) &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nTools -&gt; F12 Developer Tools<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; or &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><code><br \/>\nSettings (icon at top right) -&gt; F12 Developer Tools<br \/>\n<\/code><\/p>\n<p> &#8230; and then you are presented, on a non-mobile platform, with a separate window, with the menus &#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>F12<\/li>\n<li>DOM Explorer<\/li>\n<li>Console<\/li>\n<li>Debugger<\/li>\n<li>Network<\/li>\n<li>Performance<\/li>\n<li>Memory<\/li>\n<\/li>\n<p>Emulation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> &#8230; and of these we spend most of our time in the &#8220;Console&#8221; tab, debugging for Javascript issues, should they arise, as that is where such error messages are shown to you, along, often with a line of code at issue, and a clickable means to get into that code, on occasions.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Network&#8221; menu is interesting, on instigating some PHP, in that you see the HTML and non-inline Javascript and CSS components involved in a web application, displayed to you, if you are ready with it, as you launch your web application.<\/p>\n<p>If this was interesting you may be interested in <a title='Click here to see topics in which you might be interested' href='#d32473' onclick='var dv=document.getElementById(\"d32473\"); dv.innerHTML = \"&lt;iframe width=670 height=600 src=\" + \"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/tag\/web-browser\" + \"&gt;&lt;\/iframe&gt;\"; dv.style.display = \"block\";'>this<\/a> too.<\/p>\n<div id='d32473' style='display: none; border-left: 2px solid green; border-top: 2px solid green;'><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We can&#8217;t emphasise enough how important, and useful, are the modern &#8220;breed&#8221; of web browser &#8220;web inspectors&#8221;. 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