How I find and debug issues in my CSS
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 16/04/2024

If you’d like to dive deeper into your dev tools, I have a two-hour bonus lesson as part of my course CSS Demystified that dives really deep into all the CSS related features and tools that we have, and how to use them: https://cssdemystified.com?utm_campaign=general&utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=howidebug

🔗 Links
✅ VisBug for Chrome: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/visbug/cdockenadnadldjbbgcallicgledbeoc?pli=1
✅ Visbug for Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-CA/firefox/addon/visbug/
✅ Polypane: https://polypane.app/?ref=kevin  (affiliate link, so if you do purchase, you’re also helping support my channel)

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Dev Tools basics
03:40 - Typos and invalid properties & values
05:08 - Valid properties in places they won’t work
07:42 - Responsiveness, overflows, and layout issues
09:47 - Finding overflows with outlines
12:00 - Using background-color to find overflows
12:45 - Devtools features for working with grid and flexbox
16:20 - Firefox can extra visualizations that can be useful
18:12 - VisBug
19:28 - Polypane

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