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Developer tools

Developer tools

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Developer tools

- [Instructor] The last tool in the standard web developer tool belt, is the browser developer tools. These are tools built into every browser that let you see what's going on behind the scenes, and even manipulate what code the browser is working with to figure out how things work, and how to make them work better. Historically, developer tools were an add-on to most browsers, but today they are a standard feature; open any browser, and you can right click on any element in a web document to inspect its markup, what styles apply to it, and even run JavaScript code in the console. This gives you, as a web developer, full insight into what's happening when you tell the browser to open a document, and it's an essential tool, both when you develop new documents and write new code, and when you're debugging existing documents to figure out what's going on, and how to make it work properly. Developer tools are best understood using a practical example. Here, I've opened a standard site in…

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