Can you make hovered state in Firebug “sticky?”

Question

When I\'m debugging a site, sometimes the hovered selectors are a little long winded and similar to other ones, is there a way to apply a kind of \"sticky\" state to hover r

Answer 1

For what I wanted, there's an option for it in the Style dropdown above the CSS styles for the element. Just click the dropdown, and select :active or :hover and it keeps the styles for the selected and hovered element :)

Answer 2

Sometimes items are not affected by the ":hover" state but by a mouseover in jQuery or similar, in that case you can manualy trigger the event (or force the event) in the console tab by writing:

$('#a-random-selector').mouseover()

Hope it helps, I came here looking for this answer but had to figure it out myself

Answer 3

Open both firebug and web developer->Inspector. In the Inspector window, locate the code line where the hover starts, right click the mouse and choose the :hover. Then the hover state will stay, you can do whatever you want in firebug.

Answer 4

When inspecting links, Firebug shows the default CSS state, i.e. styles applied to a:link. By default, the :hover and :active styles are not shown. Fortunately, you can change the state of the link by clicking Style and choosing the appropriate option:

Answer 5

You can try using Chrome inspector, and trigger :active :visited state etc.. on the element under styles.