Developer Tools "Find" next, previous, replace options?
I've been professional web developer for almost 15 years. I've wanted to try to step away from Chrome, but I'm having a hard time navigating through basic functionality with Firefox's developer tools. One of those was a simple "Control + F" find feature. Am I missing something?
Specifically, lets say I want to search for a specific class within a style sheet. In Chrome I can bring up the dev tools, select the style sheet, Control + F, and it will give me a toolbar with options to step through each instance of the class. It gives me total count and I can hit the up or down arrow to cycle through each instance of that class (insert any selector here). I can also Replace an instance or all instances.
When I try this in Firefox's dev tools, I get the first instance but see no way to do anything else. If I hit enter it doesn't cycle through to the next instance but creates a line break in my style sheet.
I've researched with no success. I know there is the filter option but that isn't what I'm looking for in this case. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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You can look at the Developer Tools docs.
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/style_editor/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/keyboard_shortcuts/index.html#keyboard-shortcuts-style-editor
Use Ctrl+F to open the Find bar. Use Ctrl+G for the next result. Use Ctrl+Shift+G for the previous result. Use Ctrl+Shift+F to open Replace.
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You can look at the Developer Tools docs.
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/style_editor/
- https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/keyboard_shortcuts/index.html#keyboard-shortcuts-style-editor
Use Ctrl+F to open the Find bar. Use Ctrl+G for the next result. Use Ctrl+Shift+G for the previous result. Use Ctrl+Shift+F to open Replace.
Modified by cor-el
I appreciate the solution and that does provide the answers I needed. Hopefully this will help others in my position.
But I will say below as a frustrated user.
I was on that very page during my research before I created this thread. I was literally searching (Ctrl+F) on that page with keywords like "Find" or "Search" and it returned zero results. How is a user supposed to learn about these features when the Style Editor page gives no indication or keywords that I have to go to a keyboard shortcut page to learn about them?
Maybe the Style Editor page should have that "shortcuts table" on the actual page. If that can't happen, a sentence or two giving some SEO/ADA of what will be provided on the keyboard shortcut page.
Keyboard Shortcuts Source editor shortcuts - Take a look at keyboard shortcuts available for the Style Editor; Find Next, Find Previous, Replace and more.
It's unfortunate the only way to see these methods/features is via "keyboard shortcuts" and is not present as an user interface visual option (toolbar etc).
Modified by gamecrazedm
There is a Keyboard shortcuts link to the at the very bottom of the Style Editor page.
