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Google Chrome Developer Tools: Styles Tip

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If any of you have been using Google Chrome instead of Firebug for your web development, you might have found yourself in a pinch. When using FireBug, it is relatively easy to add additional CSS styles to an element or its styles on the fly. Chrome doesn’t seem to have that ability out of the box.

Well, there IS a way, although it is rather hacky. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t do the trick!

Lets say you have an inline element with the following styles

width:50px;

However, you suddenly realise that in order to apply a width to an element it has to be a block element. So, instead of changing your stylesheet and refreshing the page, type:

width:50px;display:block;

Press Enter, and the additional style gets added!

width:50px; display:block;

Quite simple, but annoying if you didn’t know about it. Hope this helps anyone out there using Chrome for their development.

Google 2.0

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With the release of Microsoft’s new Bing search engine and the Yahoo/Microsoft deal, its no surprise that Google is starting to feel a little heat. This can only be a good thing; nothing like a bit of good healthy solid competition.

The result? The next version of Google 2.0, as reported by Mashable.

It is evident that Search is the foundation of all of Google’s online strategy, and in order to stay profitable it has to stay on top. And now Google has generously allowed the general public to preview the development build of its dominating search engine.

While searching for me, there are no immediate differences in the results. I did, however, notice that the previous version of Google could not find my facebook profile (rather strange, I think), where as the new version had listed me under an expandable list of results from Facebook.

Regardless, it is an exciting (and often scary) period to be involved in the development of the internet as we know it. Be sure to hop over to http://www2.sandbox.google.com/ and give it a whirl!