Your optional feature is perfect for a Firebug extension, you don't have to wait for us to do anything!
jjb On Dec 3, 7:51 am, "Sean O'Daniels" <[email protected]> wrote: > First off, I love Firebug and am VERY appreciative for the work that > has gone into it. I have used it for a while and found it to be an > invaluable tool for what I do. > > I work with Firebug's panels to the side. That is, when I open > Firebug, I click the the button that detaches the Firebug window into > a new window of its own. When this happens, the window does not > provide much area to work within. See the following screenshot: > > http://www.odaniels.org/temp/firebug/firebug-default.gif > > You can see how the "tabbing" that occurs with every child element has > smashed div.post all the way to the right side of the console screen. > > Customizing the font and font size is EXTREMELY important, but even > more important than that is the ability to adjust the padding and > margins of each child element. For now, I can go into html.css and > css.css in the default skin and modify .nodebox, .nodeChildBox > and .cssRule a bit and get the following: > > http://www.odaniels.org/temp/firebug/firebug-modified.gif > > Lots of room compared to the previous version, even though the > buttons / options / search at the top of the console window are all > smashed together. But the work I do with this is tedious, and all the > css changes get reset to defaults when I upgrade to the newest Firebug > and I have to do this work all over again. > > So this is my request: I would like to have menu options to set the > font of the windows, as well as having either the ability to set the > size of the margins/paddings within the window or to have it scale > proportionate to the chosen font size. Also, I would like Firebug to > remember if I have the Firebug window attached or detached at > startup. > > In addition, I would like a hotkey for Inspect Element. I though that > "Toggle Inspecting" in the shortcuts menu would do this, but it does > not work at all for me. > > Thanks! > > ----- > > As a side note, here are the steps I made to get the console window > looking like screenshot #2: > > * Install DavidSys or equivalent pixel font found > here:http://www.dafont.com/bitmap.php > > * Change the following in html.css: > > .nodeBox { > position: relative; > font-family: davidsys; > font-size: 9px; > padding-left: 8px; > -moz-user-select: -moz-none; > > } > > .nodeChildBox { > margin-left: 0px; > display: none; > > } > > * Change the following in css.css: > > .cssRule { > position: relative; > margin: 0; > padding: 1em 0 0 6px; > font-family: davidsys; > font-size: 9px; > color: #000000; > > } > > Hope this helps. > ~ sean -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Firebug" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/firebug?hl=en.
