Inspect hovered element in Chrome?

Question

I am trying to view, through Chrome\'s developer tools, how tooltips are structured on a site. However, even when I am hovered over the item, when I \"inspect element\", not

Answer 1

Worth noting that toggling the :hover state from within the dev tools only has an impact if the hint text is enabled via CSS :hover rules in the first place. The toggle only applies the hover state to the element for rendering purposes, but does not trigger a corresponding JavaScript mouseover event.

Many frameworks such as AngularJS dynamically attach tooltip HTML to the bottom of the document body via JavaScript when a target element is hovered, so any amount of hovering and inspecting the target element won't help.

@joeyyang's answer worked very well for me in this scenario.