fo******@yahoo.co.uk wrote:
Hi
Is there any tool in existence that will tell you why elements are
placed where they are on the page? What rules has IE followed to
place your elements where they are?
This would be very very useful!
I doubt if you can find out *why* IE does what it does. I think sometimes the
answer is "the designer had a bad-hair day"!
If instead you want to know which things you see on the screen are tables,
which are divs, which are lists, etc, this is very easy, even with IE.
Create your own CSS, and tell IE to use it. Tools > Internet Options... >
Accessibility. The CSS may have rules like:
table { border: 1px dotted blue; }
div { border: 1px dotted green; }
But if you want to understand other people's web pages that you see, you would
be better off using either Firefox or Netscape/Mozilla with the web
developer's toolbar. It has a whole array of features for helping to
understand why web pages appear as they do.
http://www.chrispederick.com/work/firefox/webdeveloper/
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Barry Pearson
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