From the course: Learning Troubleshooting for Web Developers

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Identify the problem

Identify the problem

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Identify the problem

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- Let's say that you've already applied all the updates you can think of and you've rebooted all the things but your problem still exists. What are you gonna do next? Well, at this point, you should have already gathered some context and from that, you've likely narrowed down the potential sources of the problem. So, what is it that isn't working like you expected it to? There are a few tools I wanna mention that can help you figure out why something isn't working as expected. The first are browser inspection tools. As a web developer, you're gonna be doing a lot of work in the browser viewing your creations. So, does something not display correctly? Well, maybe that's your CSS or your HTML, or maybe something's not behaving like it's supposed to in the browser. Maybe that's some sort of a JavaScript that's being naughty. In those cases, your best friend is the inspector tool. Now, earlier I mentioned Firefox Development Edition, and that's what I prefer but regular Firefox and Chrome…

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