Web Developer Toolbar Shortcuts
Anyone serious about working on their own website should install Chris Pederick's Web Developer browser extension, (and I suggest using it with FireFox).
The toolbar adds all kinds of diagnostic tools for debugging CSS, HTML, DOM, images and more. In-fact, it has so many features, many developers forget what is buried deep inside the toolbar's pull-down menus.
Lets say you wanted to outline all the TABLE CELLS on a page. You could click Tools, then Web Developer, then Outline, then Tables and finally Table Cells, (as the menu below shows);
To outline all TABLE CELLS using Chris Pederick's Web Developer toolbar requires (5) pull-down menu hovers and clicks.
Instead, if you prefer you can shorten all of clicking to a series of keystrokes.
All of the shortcuts begin with [ALT]+[T]+[W].. so all you need to remember is the 2-3 keys after that. The example above, to Outline Table Cells is [ALT]+[T]+[W]+[O]+[T]+[C].
Here's a few more commonly used ones.
View Image Information ......... [ALT]+TWIV
Outline Block Level Elements ......... [ALT]+TWOB
Menu navigation needed to oultine all block level elements using Chris Pederick's web developer toolbar.
To learn the shortcuts, start by pressing [ALT]+TW, then look for the bold / underlined characters in each menu item.
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This isn’t working for me. I’m on Windows XP Firefox 4 and when I press Alt TW the Tools menu drops down and Web Developer is highlighted but the sub-menu does not appear.So no further nav is possible.
Any ideas?
Comment by Mike Heath — April 27, 2011 @ 12:26 pm
I’m still on FF 3, so I can’t say if its a FF4 specific issue. A few thoughts: maybe the keystrokes are conflicting with other browser add-on you have installed, or other Windows apps that trap those particular keystrokes. I can fully navigate the entire Web Developer menu structure with the keyboard shortcuts and have not had anyone else report the issue you’re having, sorry.
Comment by Randy Harris — April 27, 2011 @ 6:10 pm