"Inspect Element(Q)".

[joglynne]

OK I give up.

When I right click on anything on my screen when I am using Firefox I get the option to "Inspect Element(Q)". All I have been able to track down is here and what that says is as clear as mud.

Now I know my limits and I wouldn't dream of messing with what appears on my screen but I would like to try to understand what it is showing me. Sometimes it's obvious as it will just describe what I have clicked on ie img profilepic ... but click on the Google logo when doing a search gives a whole screen full of scarey computer blah.

Can anyone please help?

[Kymmy]

It's just a CSS/SCRIPT/HTML element viewer.. A lot more simplified than Firebug.. Handy if you're designing/debugging webpages/sites but not much use elsewhere.

[joglynne]

Cheers Kymmy.

I shall now go and look up what you have posted. My ignorance astounds me.

[Kymmy]

In simple terms.. It allows someone to check the coding that makes up part of a web page, so if you want to alter color, font, spacing..etc it'll point you where to make the alterations within the CSS (the file that dictates those details)

[joglynne]

Soooooooo ...in other words I shouldn't touch it with an extended, double length barge pole.

I have just had a Google and scarily enough I understand what it is for, even if reading the links that came up did make my brain hurt a tad. Thanks again.

[Kymmy]

You can touch it as it's a viewer so can't do any harm.. It doesn't allow you to change what's for example is on googles servers.. I use firebug (a more detailed version) when sorting out problems on my sites which I have direct access to the CSS/HTML/PHP pages which I can alter dorectly.

[joglynne]

Ah, my not being able to crash the whole WWW is most reassuring.