2007-06-19 (12:42 am) : by ralfordStatistics for 'ralford'
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When I recently upgraded to Firefox v2, I installed the
Web Developer Toolbar, and have found it to be tremendously helpful for editing style sheets.
Under the CSS menu, there is a button called
Edit CSS. When you select it, a sidebar opens with a copy of the active tab's style sheet. The sidebar is essentially a text editor, with built in open, save, and search functions. You can add or remove code, and see how it will affect the webpage on the fly.
In combination with the CSS editor, I have also been using the Outline menu's
Outline Block Level Elements option. When toggled, it throws a red outline around all block elements of the active webpage.
These two features together were incredibly useful when I was adding footnotes to the weblog. At one point, blocks on my page were aligned in such away that groups of links on my sidebar were "dead". When I outlined the block elements, the block to blame was given away when I saw it overlapping the sidebar.