Inject CSS with chrome developer tool?

Question

Where can I add CSS to the page I'm viewing? I don't want to add style to one element directly, I want to add a 'document' to a page to debug changes before editing the site's style.css.

Note, there are lots of questions here about 'injecting CSS from a chrome extension', but specifically I want to do it via the 'Chrome Developer Tools' thingy.

Answer 1

I'm not sure if it works, but you'd have to try.

Pressing F12/ (Cmd + opt + I on Mac) to open up the Developer Console and go to the Console tab.

Copy paste the following code (edit the path):

$(document.head).append('<link rel="stylesheet" href="path_to_my_css">'); 

Alternatively, you could edit one property so the inspector-stylesheet.css is created by Chrome, and copy past your CSS source there.

Answer 2

There are multiple ways to do that, and they are also very easy.

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First way, inspector-stylesheet:

Open Inspect Element (F12 Or Ctrl+ Shift+I)

Go to Elements tab (Ctrl+ Shift+ P and type show elements), if you are not already there, see the Styles tab, now see on right corner, there would be a + icon, click it (or long press that icon if it doesn't automatically add inspector-stylesheet), it will add selector of currently highlighted element, just next to the selector, there will a link/button inspector-stylesheet, click it, it will take you a window, where you can add styles.

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Second way, Edit as HTML

Open Inspect Element (F12 Or Ctrl+ Shift+I)

Go to element panel (Ctrl+ Shift+ p and type show element panel).

Scroll to the head element right click on the element and choose Edit as HTML, go to the bottom of that element (Ctrl+ End), add your <style></style> element there add your style in that element, and hit Ctrl+ Enter.

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Third way, Snippet:

Open Inspect Element (F12 Or Ctrl+ Shift+I)

Go to the Source tab, go to the Snippets tab, click on the + New snippet, name it whatever you want, and add this:

Create new snippet Ctrl+ Shift+ P type Create new snippet hit Enter , rename the snippet if you want to, and add this (edit the style) :

(function(){     let style = `<style> /*change your style here*/ body{         display:none;     } </style>`;  document.head.insertAdjacentHTML("beforeend", style); })(); 

Save it, run it (Ctrl+Enter).

You can also run the snippets by doing this: Ctrl+ p type ! it will show your saved snippets, choose the one you want to run.

To edit or see your snippets, Ctrl+ Shift+ P type show snippets.

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In FireFox it's even easier:

Open Inspect Element (F12)

Go to Style Editor, click the + icon and you will be able to edit the style; You can also, import styles, just by clicking the icon next to the +.