Less/Sass debugging in Chrome Dev Tools/Firebug [closed]

Question

How do you guys do maintenance on CSS built with Less/Sass?

One of the things I like about Dev Tools/Firebug is the ability to see the line number of a css styling. Is there a good way to do this with CSS preprocessors other than having to manually search through the .less/.scss file to find the code I want to modify?

Answer 1

Chrome Developer Tools now supports Sass debugging out-of-the-box.

Updated to include source maps:
Previous versions used inline comment in your css to provide a refernce to the source code (see below how-to). recent versions of sass (3.3+) and chrome (31+) use source maps for that:

1. Make sure you have Sass 3.3.x
2. Compile your Sass with the --sourcemap flag.
3. In Chrome/ium DevTools open settings and click general.
4. Turn on "Enable CSS source maps".

More info is available on the Chrome dev tools blog: https://developers.google.com/chrome-developer-tools/docs/css-preprocessors

Older versions:
1. First, you should compile your Sass with --debug-info turned on.
2. In Chrome/ium go to about:flags
3. Enable Developer Tools experiments
4. In your inspector (F12), open "Settings", then go to the "Experiments" tab and check "Support for SASS".