How can I inspect disappearing element in a browser?

How can I inspect an element which disappears when my mouse moves away? I don’t know it’s ID, class or anything but want to inspect it. Solutions I have tried: Run jQuery selector inside console $(‘*:contains(“some text”)’) but didn’t have any luck mainly because the element is not hidden but probably removed from the DOM … Read more

Suggestions for debugging print stylesheets?

I’ve recently been working on a print stylesheet for a website, and I realized that I was at a loss for effective ways to tweak it. It’s one thing to have a reload cycle for working on the on-screen layout: change code command-tab reload but that whole process gets much more arduous when you’re trying … Read more

Tools to selectively Copy HTML+CSS+JS From A Specific Element of DOM [closed]

Closed. This question does not meet Stack Overflow guidelines. It is not currently accepting answers. Want to improve this question? Update the question so it’s on-topic for Stack Overflow. Closed 5 years ago. Improve this question Like most web developers, I occasionally like to look at the source of websites to see how their markup … Read more

Loading local JSON file

I’m trying to load a local JSON file but it won’t work. Here is my JavaScript code (using jQuery): var json = $.getJSON(“test.json”); var data = eval(“(” +json.responseText + “)”); document.write(data[“a”]); The test.json file: {“a” : “b”, “c” : “d”} Nothing is displayed and Firebug tells me that data is undefined. In Firebug I can … Read more

How to debug JavaScript / jQuery event bindings with Firebug or similar tools?

I need to debug a web application that uses jQuery to do some fairly complex and messy DOM manipulation. At one point, some of the events that were bound to particular elements, are not fired and simply stop working. If I had a capability to edit the application source, I would drill down and add … Read more

Differences between socket.io and websockets

What are the differences between socket.io and websockets in node.js? Are they both server push technologies? The only differences I felt was, socket.io allowed me to send/emit messages by specifying an event name. In the case of socket.io a message from server will reach on all clients, but for the same in websockets I was … Read more