Firebug is an add-on for the Firefox browser. It takes a few seconds to install and once installed you can easily switch it on an off. When switched on, Firebug puts several tools at your disposal. You can, for example, look at the HTML of the page you are viewing, or check what files a particular page consists of, and how long each took to download. You can use it to examine the structure of a web page, understand how its tables are organised, and look in detail at any cascading style sheet the page might use; and by pointing to a particular part of a web page you can review the code that makes the page function.
Thanks to Dick Moore for sending me details.
Firebug's "Net" tab is particularly useful for troubleshooting Ajax requests fired off by your page.
Posted by: Greg King | 24/05/2007 at 18:33