Ie devtools is far behind firebug Firefox has native css inspector that a charm its also very light.
- S On 10 Feb 2012 18:32, "Rick Lowes" <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Tom (and others doing debugging of CSS issues with Bootstrap), > > This may be a bit of a dumb question with an obvious "yes" answer, but > just wondering if you (and others on this mailing list) are using the Web > Inspector with Safari/Chrome browser (or Firebug with Firefox) in order to > determine what is affecting the specific elements that you are having > trouble with, with respect to css layout, styling etc. > > If you aren't using the Web Inspector or Firebug right now, I highly > recommend you do as it is a *massively* valuable tool for telling you > what's going on with any particular element on a page (i.e. what styles are > affecting the element, what ones are overriding others, etc) and even > allows you to make real-time edits to your html/css and see what they do to > the page. > > Anyhow perhaps you are using it, and still having issues figuring out > what's going on, but if you aren't (and for others on this list that may > not be using it either) I highly recommend using the Web Inspector (or > Firebug for Firefox) and becoming extremely familiar with it - I'm not > aware of any other tool that is more valuable in my mind for debugging > CSS/HTML issues (once you understand and get the hang of it) - and it's > pretty simple to use. > > Someone did a video (link below) that explains how to activate/use it > (this shows Safari 4 Web Inspector, however this is also exactly how it > works for Google Chrome and Firefox/Firebug). Internet Explorer I believe > also has developer tools available by hitting F12, although I am not > as familiar with that and it's capabilities. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXdR5eIFZ8k > > Rick > > On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 5:27 PM, tom12010 <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Centering a nav list is easy to do usually... >> >> However, applying text-align:center doesn't cause the nav-pills >> content to center...why?? >> >> I can write other/different css/list code but I'd really puzzled by >> this -- nothing in the css indicates that nav or nav-pills can't be >> centered in the browser window. >> >> Thank you, Tom > > >
