Browser Developer Tools
Explore how browser developer tools help you inspect and understand HTML, CSS, and network requests. Learn to use these tools to analyze webpage elements and retrieve the original HTML, enabling accurate data extraction for web scraping projects.
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In this lesson, we will explore the browser tools that enable us to navigate and comprehend the structure of an HTML document. The previous lesson introduced using an HTML document for this purpose. We will delve deeper into the tools available in a web browser to facilitate this process.
We will use Google Chrome for demonstration purposes, but similar functions are available in other browsers, such as Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari, and Microsoft Edge.
Introduction to developer tools
The browser developer tools are built-in tools that provide insights into the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript code and allow us to debug our web code in real time.
There are several methods for accessing the browser developer tools. We can easily access the DOM or CSS of any webpage by right-clicking the desired ...