Chrome DevTools: Search your HTML elements by CSS selector in the Elements Panel

Last updated: April 15, 2015
Search your HTML elements by CSS selector in the Elements Panel

Introduction

When searching within the Elements panel, you can find elements by their CSS Selector. For example:

  • a[href] - finds all anchors with a href attribute.
  • li a - finds all anchors which are descendants of list items.

How to use this feature

To search for nodes by their CSS selectors, use the shortcut: CMD / Ctrl + F.

This means you can search for .summary h3 to cycle through all h3 elements which are descendants of elements with a class of summary.

Related resource

I've covered a few other tricks in the Elements Panel, such as editing HTML, Copying as CSS selector, and re-arranging elements.

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