What does it mean when a CSS rule is grayed out in Chrome’s element inspector?

For me the current answers didn’t explain the issue fully enough, so I am adding this answer which hopefully might be useful to others. Greyed/dimmed out text, can mean either it’s a default rule/property the browser applies, which includes defaulted short-hand properties. It involves inheritance which is a bit more complicated. Inheritance Note: Chrome dev … Read more

Using Chrome, how to find to which events are bound to an element

Using Chrome 15.0.865.0 dev. There’s an “Event Listeners” section on the Elements panel: And an “Event Listeners Breakpoints” on the Scripts panel. Use a Mouse -> click breakpoint and then “step into next function call” while keeping an eye on the call stack to see what userland function handles the event. Ideally, you’d replace the … Read more