Almost everyone uses the Internet today. People look for a lot of information on the Internet. It can be anything. For example the description of a service or a restaurant site where you can order food or just a news site where you can find out the latest news.
In any of these cases, people choose those websites that are the most attractive in terms of convenience and beauty. To make your site a success and started to work well it must be stylish and functional. It’s also important that it isn’t frizzy and quickly loaded.
All this depends on how the site is designed and what technology is used in it. It’s commonly believed that programming is difficult. However once you understand the basics, you can understand how your site works and how you can change it.
In order to quickly view your site in terms of code, modern browsers have an element inspection function. This function is also present in the Mac.
Why you should learn how to use the Inspect Element feature
This is a basic function in website development. With its help, developers check the performance of web pages. It’s used to debug and test pages on the Internet. Among the other uses of this feature can be distinguished 4 directions:
- Developers use this feature to develop websites, test them and make changes.
- Designers can use it to check how their layouts look or take a layout from another site
- Marketers can use it to change text online or check Google Analytics.
- Support agents can connect to the Element Inspector so they can pass along correct information to developers about bugs reported by site users.
We can also say that if you’re a business owner, it would be useful to get acquainted with this feature to understand how your Website works and what future tasks can be set for the developers.
How to Inspect Element on Mac in different browsers
It’s actually not hard to activate the Inspect Element feature. You can literally do it in a few clicks on any of the browsers. To do this, you need to:
Safari
At first, it may seem like this feature works harder on safari than on any other browser. In fact, activating it’s easy. You need:
- Start Safari.
- Go to Preferences (⌘ + ,).
- Click the Advanced tab.
- Check the “Show Develop menu on the menu bar” box.
- Then you will have access to the developer tools in the menu
- Next, you need the Show Page Source function (Option + ⌘ + U)
- And click Elements to display the site code.
Then when you hover the cursor over an element it will be highlighted. If you want to open the Safari Inspect Element option on a particular section of the page, you can right-click on it and select Inspect Element.
Firefox
They work in the same way, but they already have Inspect Element enabled.
The Firefox Inspect Element shortcut is Option + ⌘ + I, and you can also right-click on any element to inspect it.
Chrome
You can find this feature under View ➙ Developer in the menu bar or by using the keyboard shortcut Option + ⌘ + I. You can use item inspection in Chrome in the same way, simply by right-clicking on any part of the web page.
How to make changes to a website using Inspect Element
With this feature, you can make quick changes to your site. To do this, you need to enable the Inspect Element options and literally tweak any part of the HTML or CSS.
You will need to repeat the same steps in all browsers. To make changes to your start page, you need to:
- Right-click on your desired element and click on Inspect Element.
- Then double-click on the text in the code and make it available for editing.
- Now you can make edits to your code.
- When you have made all the edits, press Enter.
You can change the image or animation on any web page – to do it, replace the URL of the old image with URL of the new image or GIF.
You can also make changes to CSS, like changing colors or font sizes.
