Introducing the Element Inspection Tool

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There are numerous valuable web development resources out there , be it books, videos, online courses , etc. Learning how to use the browser's Inspect Element tool is one such powerful skill. It's an invaluable learning tool that's right at your fingertips and always accessible.

With the Inspect Elements feature, you can see the inner workings of the website. While you can only see the front-end markup, such as HTML, CSS, and sometimes JavaScript, it gives you a way to see precisely how the developers built a website.

In this post, we're going to show you how to use the Inspect Element tool and some of the related technologies, features, and functionality you can find in it. First, let's give a formal introduction to the Inspect Element tool itself.

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In the early days of the web, there was only one way to view a website's code: the View Source feature .

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Kinsta.com page “View source”.
This was a common situation in the days before Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) and JavaScript were abundant . Web developers used HTML for every element of the site, including content, layout, and… well, everything.

As the web began to evolve and the underlying technologies became more powerful, better tools needed to be developed. Firefox's Firebug was one of the first solutions for figuring out how a website was working: