Restart FireFox, and you’re good to go.Īfter successful installation you should see Firebug icon in the top right side of the Firefox browser. To install Firebug for Firefox, go to (click on Install Firebug). Suggestions and feedback are always welcomed.Firebug is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser that allows you to debug and inspect HTML, CSS, the Document Object Model (DOM) and JavaScript. If you like my posts, please like, comment and share. But I just tried to explain all Whys and Hows. You would have not seen this much long post on a very easy topic.
Now you can write XPath/css expression and click enter to know matching elements number. You can find css path as well using FirePath. Click on down arrow just beside XPath. If you click it it will be not remain highlighted and will be not highlight matching web element in web page. You can see highlighted ‘Highlight’ option. It will give you number of matching elements with given xpath. It will show iframe if element is present inside iframe. It will give you document in which element is present. It will highlight the web element under FirePath tab. Points to be known from above screenshot: Now open Facebook URL and do Right click on ‘Email or Phone’ text box and select ‘Inspect in FirePath’. Type ‘FirePath’ in search box and press ‘Enter’. (If do not understand this point, do not take load. Choose the document in which to evaluate the expression/selector (only applicable for HTML documents with frames or iframes). Define the evaluation context (parent) of an expression/selector. 
Generate an XPath expression or a CSS selector for an element by right clicking on it and selecting “Inspect in FirePath” in the context menu. Highlight the results directly on the document displayed by Firefox (works only with HTML documents). Display the result of evaluations in a Firebug-like DOM tree. Evaluate the expression/selector on any HTML or XML documents. Edit XPath expressions, CSS3 selectors and JQuery selectors. We can achieve more functionality with Firebug with another add on named FirePath.įirePath is a Firebug extension that adds a development tool to edit, inspect and generate XPath 1.0 expressions, CSS 3 selectors and JQuery selectors. It will highlight element if correctly located. Way should be changed as should be changed can verify copied XPath by hitting in console tab as below: So, to use it in JAVA, replace double quote from single quote or escape it as: Note: Copying XPath from here, attribute values will be in double quotes. (html# _LoggedOut._-kb.b_1.Locale_en_GB div._li div#pagelet_bluebar div#blueBarDOMInspector div._53jh div.loggedout_menubar_container _menubar div.menu_login_container.rfloat._ohf form#login_form table tbody tr td input#email.inputtext) Copy CSS Path: It will copy CSSpath in clipboard. Copy Minimal XPath: It will copy relative XPath in clipboard. (/html/body/div/div/div/div/div/div/div/form/table/tbody/tr/td/input) Copy XPath: It will copy absolute XPath in clipboard. HOW TO INSTALL FIREBUG IN FIREFOX CODE
Now do right click on highlighted code and observe options. Let’s see how.ĭo right click on web element which you want to locate and select Inspect Element with Firebug. We can get XPath and CSS selector of Web element using Firebug. Now question is what is use of installing firebug for us? This time you will see ‘click on ‘Inspect Element(Q) with Firebug’. Now open Facebook URL and do right click on ‘Email or Phone’ text box. ‘.1’ (if present) and set the value to ‘false’Ĭ. Type “about:config” is address bar and click on ‘I accept the risk’.Ī. Still you can use it but you need to enable it.Ģ. Firefox DevTools is alternative of Firebug. When you do right click and see you will not get option to inspect with firebug. The Firebug extension isn’t being developed or maintained any longer. You should see an icon of ‘bug’ in right side top corner.įor Firefox version 51.0.1 and Firebug version > 2.0.18.Type ‘Firebug’ in search box and press ‘Enter’.Type about:addons in address and hit ‘Enter’.You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Right click on ‘Email or Phone’ text box and select ‘Inspect Element(Q)’ and observe.įirebug is a add-on of Firefox which helps you in identifying HTML, CSS and JAVASCRIPT web elements more easily.įirebug integrates with Firefox to put a wealth of development tools at your fingertips while you browse.
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