Does the Internet explorer web developer toolbar work with popups?

Question

I cannot get the internet explorer web developer tool bar to work with a pop-up, it won't render at the bottom of the pop-up. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

There's a very specific way to do this:

1. open the developer tools (via F12 or whatever) in the main browser window. Ensure the developer tools are 'pinned' to this window.
2. Do whatever you do to open the popup window
3. Open the developer tools (via F12 or whatever) for the popup window
4. unpin the developer tools window (CTRL+P) from the popup window
5. close the popup window (this will automatically close the developer tools window too)
6. keeping the developer tools open in the main browser window, open the popup window again. The developer tools window should open automatically alongside it.

You should now also be able to control whether the developer tools open for the popup window or not by toggling the developer tools in the main window. That;s how it works for me, anyway! This is all on IE9 on Windows 7 by the way...

The only problem with all of this is if you need to debug something that only happens the first time you launch the popup window...

Which is exactly the problem I have - I've got a SCORM-compliant e-learning course that launches in a popup window and which has a bug that only happens on first launching the course in IE!! Oh well...

Answer 2

I am pretty sure it won't work with modal popup windows. If you are opening popups as modal you may have to change the code to mode-less just for debugging purposes.