pesticide

Kill your css layout bugs

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chiyc·Dec 12, 2020

My secret weapon for squashing tricky layout and UI bugs is Pesticide. https://github.com/mrmrs/pesticide https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pesticide-css... It's basically the more sophisticated way of putting a border on everything. The hover interactions are great for revealing elements you didn't think you were hovering over.

In Show HN: I wrote a book about Debugging CSS

halisaurus·Nov 15, 2016

I built the Chrome extension [0] for Pesticide[1]. It toggles the Pesticide CSS in the current tab making it easier to visualize the placement of elements in the DOM. Useful for front end debugging. The extensions first implementation was basically just a ternary operator! Now it's got a little more to it, but it's still super simple. [0] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pesticide-for-chro... [1] https://github.com/mrmrs/pesticide

In Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?