It will give you number of matching elements with given xpath.It will show iframe if element is present inside iframe. It will give you document in which element is present.It will highlight the web element under FirePath tab.Points to be known from above screenshot: Now open Facebook URL and do Right click on ‘Email or Phone’ text box and select ‘Inspect in FirePath’.Type ‘FirePath’ in search box and press ‘Enter’.(If do not understand this point, do not take load. Choose the document in which to evaluate the expression/selector (only applicable for HTML documents with frames or iframes).Define the evaluation context (parent) of an expression/selector.Generate an XPath expression or a CSS selector for an element by right clicking on it and selecting “Inspect in FirePath” in the context menu.Highlight the results directly on the document displayed by Firefox (works only with HTML documents).Display the result of evaluations in a Firebug-like DOM tree.Evaluate the expression/selector on any HTML or XML documents.Edit XPath expressions, CSS3 selectors and JQuery selectors.We can achieve more functionality with Firebug with another add on named FirePath.įirePath is a Firebug extension that adds a development tool to edit, inspect and generate XPath 1.0 expressions, CSS 3 selectors and JQuery selectors. It will highlight element if correctly located. Way should be changed as should be changed can verify copied XPath by hitting in console tab as below: So, to use it in JAVA, replace double quote from single quote or escape it as: Note: Copying XPath from here, attribute values will be in double quotes.
(html# _LoggedOut._-kb.b_1.Locale_en_GB div._li div#pagelet_bluebar div#blueBarDOMInspector div._53jh div.loggedout_menubar_container _menubar div.menu_login_container.rfloat._ohf form#login_form table tbody tr td input#email.inputtext) Copy CSS Path: It will copy CSSpath in clipboard.
#HOW TO INSTALL FIREBUG IN MOZILLA FIREFOX CODE#
Now do right click on highlighted code and observe options. Let’s see how.ĭo right click on web element which you want to locate and select Inspect Element with Firebug. We can get XPath and CSS selector of Web element using Firebug. Now question is what is use of installing firebug for us? This time you will see ‘click on ‘Inspect Element(Q) with Firebug’. Now open Facebook URL and do right click on ‘Email or Phone’ text box. ‘.1’ (if present) and set the value to ‘false’Ĭ. Type “about:config” is address bar and click on ‘I accept the risk’.Ī. Still you can use it but you need to enable it.Ģ. Firefox DevTools is alternative of Firebug. When you do right click and see you will not get option to inspect with firebug. The Firebug extension isn’t being developed or maintained any longer. You should see an icon of ‘bug’ in right side top corner.įor Firefox version 51.0.1 and Firebug version > 2.0.18.Type ‘Firebug’ in search box and press ‘Enter’.Type about:addons in address and hit ‘Enter’.
You can edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.