So, clicking on any of these options, we can dock/undock the DevTools panel to any of the positions on the screen, as per our comfort and need.Īs we discussed, one of the major features provided by the Chrome DevTools panel is to provide the capabilities to inspect a web element and find various types of locators using which we can locate the elements in the Selenium test cases. This option has the following suboptions ( indicated by small images next to option) using which we can dock the window as per our requirement.
When we click on the three verticle dots in the top right corner of the window, we get the " Dock side" option along with other options. The docking options are provided in the Elements panel, as highlighted below: We can also dock the Chrome Developer Tools window to the left/ right or bottom of the window or even undock it to a separate window. We can use any of the above options to open the element box in the Chrome developer tools.
On Mac OS, we can use the command " Cmd + Opt + C " to open chrome developer tools. The same command works on Chrome OS and Linux.
Using keyboard shortcut, " Ctrl + Shift + i" or "Ctrl + Shift + c" on Windows Operating System.CSS panel: The CSS panel (marked 3) changes the CSS properties - fonts, sizes, and colors of the webpage.Īpart from clicking on " More tools-> Developer Tools", we can also open the element box using the following options:.It also shows what's new in the Chrome developer tools. Console panel: Console panel (marked 2) is in the bottom part of the element box and shows the log messages that are logged by developers in the script.
Here we have full control of the HTML and can modify files freely. It is a tool using which we can change the HTML page layout.
Thirdly, as shown in the above image, we click on Developer Tools, which opens up the element box in the chrome developer tools section.Secondly, after that, click on More tools->Developer Tools. So how do we access the elements panel in Google Chrome developer tools? Let's see various ways to achieve the same: ***How to access the Chrome DevTools Panel? ***įollow the steps as mentioned below to access the DevTools Panel in Chrome Browser:įirstly, click the " Customise and control Google Chrome" button ( 3 dots in a vertical line) on the upper right side of the browser screen. We can also alter the appearance and even contents of the web page as we can edit " CSS " and " HTML" files at run time and perform quick debugging of the application.