How can you inspect HTML code of a specific element in a web page?

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Tags: Quality Assurance (QA)

Answer

There are slight differences between browsers so we will describe how this can be done in Google Chrome. There are three ways:

  • Right click the element in the page and click Inspect
  • Open Chrome DevTools using F12, click the arrow icon that is in the top left corner of DevTools, select an element in the page by clicking on it
  • Display the page source code, locate the element by the text that is contained within it or some of its siblings (this solution is quite slow and clumsy)
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