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there are eight main groups of tools available view Developer Tools: Elements, Resources, Network, Sources, Timeline, Profiles, Storage, Audits, and Console. You can use the Ctrl+[ and Ctrl+] shortcuts to move between panels.
- The Elements panel lets you see everything in one DOM tree, and allows inspection and on-the-fly editing of DOM elements. You will often visit the Elements tabs when you need to identify the HTML snippet for some aspect of the page
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The JavaScript Console provides two primary functions for developers testing web pages and applications:
- A place to log diagnostic information using methods provided by the Console API, such as console.log(), orconsole.profile().
- A shell prompt where you can enter commands and interact with the document and the Chrome DevTools. You can evaluate expressions directly in the Console, and can also use the methods provided by the Command Line API, such as $() command for selecting elements, or profile() to start the CPU profiler.
- As the complexity of JavaScript applications increase, developers need powerful debugging tools to help quickly discover the cause of an issue and fix it efficiently. The Chrome DevTools include a number of useful tools to help makedebugging JavaScript less painful.
- The Network panel provides insights into resources that are requested and downloaded over the network in real time. Identifying and addressing those requests taking longer than expected is an essential step in optimizing your page.
- The Timeline panel gives you a complete overview of where time is spent when loading and using your web app or page. All events, from loading resources to parsing JavaScript, calculating styles, and repainting are plotted on a timeline.
- The Profiles panel lets you profile the execution time and memory usage of a web app or page. The Profiles panel includes a few profilers: a CPU profiler, a JavaScript profiler and a Heap profiler. These help you to understand where resources are being spent, and so help you to optimize your code:
- The Resources panel lets you inspect resources that are loaded in the inspected page. It lets you interact with HTML 5 Database, Local Storage, Cookies, AppCache, etc.