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I'm currently developing a website in HTML and I want to copy some of the code from other websites. However when I go into the inspect element feature and try to copy just part of the code it ends up copying the whole script. Is there any way I can get just part of the code from inspect element without having to copy the whole thing and cut out the bits that I don't want in dreamweaver?
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Chrome: Right-click a blank space on the page and choose View Page Source. Highlight the code, then copy and paste to a text file.
The only way to extract code from inspect element is line by line. The code in inspect element changes based on the javascript of the page which is why it is different. The code is also displayed the way the browser interprets the source code.
Click on main. CSS, which will open up the code. Select and copy the code, then open a new sheet in your text editor and paste the CSS. Save the file with a .
On the left side is the HTML DOM tree, and on the right side, the CSS styles of the selected element. Having the right element selected on the HTML DOM tree, right-click on it and choose “Copy” > “Copy styles”. And done, the CSS was copied! That’s how you copy CSS from “Inspect element”. ⚠️ The biggest downsides of this approach are that:
Before exploring the Inspect Element tool in Google Chrome, it’s essential to know about the Developers Tools. It is a panel that comes with the Inspect Tool, and it comprises three main parts: Elements/Document Object Model (DOM) panel – contains the page’s DOM tree and provides access to the Hyper Text Markup Language (HTML) source code.
In earlier versions of Chrome we could simply select and copy an element (with Ctrl+C or Cmd+C) and then paste it inside an element by selecting it and then paste (with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V). It's not possible in the latest versions though (I'm running Chrome 58.0.3029.110) and it has set me up many times since then.
First, hover over the element you want to copy. Then, right-click on it and choose the option to Inspect Element. Firefox doesn’t have the option “Copy styles” that Chrome has so it’s a bit harder. On the right panel of the Devtools, it’s the CSS code (styles) we want to copy:
Right click on the particular element (e.g. div, table, td) and select the copy as html.
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In earlier versions of Chrome we could simply select and copy an element (with Ctrl+C or Cmd+C) and then paste it inside an element by selecting it and then paste (with Ctrl+V or Cmd+V). It's not possible in the latest versions though (I'm running Chrome 58.0.3029.110) and it has set me up many times since then.
Instead of using the commands for copy and paste, we now have to right click the element -> Copy -> Copy Element and then right click the element that we want to append the copied element to -> Copy -> Paste Element.
I don't understand why the short commands are deactivated but at least it's still possible to do it in a more inconvenient way.
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Click on the line or element you want to copy. Copy to clipboard. Paste.
The only tricky thing is if you click on a line, you get everything that line includes if it was folded. For example if you click on a div, and copy, you get everything that the div includes.
You can also get only what you want by Right Clicking, and select 'Edit as HTML'. This will make that section essentially text, with none of the folding activated. You can then select, copy and paste the relevant bits.
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