Unlock the Power of Firefox DevTools for CSS Authors
As a developer, you know that a good set of tools can make all the difference in your workflow. Firefox DevTools has been rapidly releasing amazing improvements, and it’s time to explore the powerful features specifically designed for CSS authors.
Page Inspector: A Triple Pane Powerhouse
With Firefox’s newly added 3-pane inspector, you can inspect and modify HTML and CSS with ease. The third pane provides valuable insight into layout properties, such as box-sizing, position, and display, making your CSS workflow more efficient.
Shape Path Editor: Create Complex Shapes with Ease
Firefox’s Shape Path Editor allows you to edit and inspect shape paths directly from the DevTools. Create complex shapes like circles, rectangles, and polygons, and manipulate them with ease.
Filters: Visual Effects Made Easy
Firefox’s filter editor gives you the power to create and adjust visual effects like blur, saturate, and sepia. With a simple click, you can add, remove, and adjust filters to achieve the desired result.
Animations: Bring Your Interface to Life
The animations view provides full details of animations applied to your elements, along with controllers and a timeline to handle playback. You can even control animations applied to pseudo-elements like ::before or ::after.
Grid: Inspect and Customize with Ease
Firefox was one of the first browsers to offer powerful tooling for inspecting elements using Grid. With the ability to display line numbers, area names, and extended lines, you can customize your grid inspection system to fit your needs.
Fonts: Typography Made Easy
The Fonts tab grants developers the ability to inspect, view, and manipulate fonts applied to their page. With additional controls for variable fonts, you can adjust axes individually or select defined instances.
Screenshots: Document Your Work Visually
Firefox provides clever ways to document your work visually, including full page screenshots, partial page regions, and individual nodes. You can even capture screenshots using the DevTools menu bar or the browser bar.
Style Editor: Inspect and Edit Stylesheets
The Style Editor allows you to view, create, and import entire stylesheets. With the ability to import custom stylesheets or create new ones, you can solve problems more efficiently.
Responsive Design Mode: Test and Refine
Firefox’s Responsive Design Mode provides powerful tooling to inspect a site’s responsive aspects. Choose from various devices, pixel ratios, user-agents, custom screen sizes, orientation, and network throttling to test and refine your design.
Transforms: Visualize and Understand
With Firefox DevTools, you can visualize transforms without guessing. Hover over any transform property to see the transform as an overlay on your page.
Working with Preprocessors: Seamless Integration
Firefox DevTools allows you to work seamlessly with preprocessors like Sass or LESS. Select “Show original sources” in the Style Editor settings to link to the original sources in the Style Editor.
The Future of Firefox DevTools
The Firefox DevTools team is committed to continuous improvement, with exciting features like CSS change-tracking, flexbox inspector, and more on the horizon. Share your input and help shape the future of Firefox DevTools.
Join the Conversation
Want to make your voice heard? Join the Firefox DevTools community, tweet at @FirefoxDevTools, or get involved in their active Slack channel and discourse. With your input, we can create a better DevTool for everyone.