The reason for that is because the flash embed swallows all mouse events so we do not receive a mouseover event from flash objects. Because we use mouse events for inspect swf elements are often not inspectable.
I believe that there is already an issue logged for this somewhere. On Jul 4, 1:46 am, edgeworth <[email protected]> wrote: > So go to youtube and select any video because I think it is an issue > with flash objects. > Select the 'inspect element tool' in firebug and try to click on the > div that contains the flash player to select it and inspect it. > You should notice or at least I do that as soon as you move the cursor > off that div, the inspect tool will just go into 'hunt mode' again and > highlight all the elements it passes over. You will be unable to > select the div that contains the flash player. > Hope that explained it. I think I'm having the same issue with other > elements but right now, I can only see the issue with flash objects. > If I notice it happening with any other elements I'll post again. > Cheers! > > On Jul 1, 5:32 am, John J Barton <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > On Jun 30, 2:40 pm, edgeworth <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I can't click on an element to highlight and freeze it because as soon > > > as I move my mouse off it, it goes onto highlighting the other > > > elements it passes over and the source code changes. > > > > On firebug 1.7.3 and Fx5. The same issue on Fx4. > > > Sorry I can't make out what you are trying to describe. > > jjb -- 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.
