Firebug: How to inspect elements changing with mouse movements?

Question

Sometimes I need to inspect elements that are only showing up on a page if you put mouse over some area. The problem is that if you start moving mouse towards firebug consol

Answer 1

You could insert a breakpoint at the start of the mouseout event handler. Its code won't be executed until you allow it to continue, and you can use the DOM inspector and so forth while execution is stopped.