I can't speak for the other browsers, but at least in Chrome, it's pretty easy to determine which rules are applied and which are overriden for whatever reason On Sep 13, 2013 8:36 AM, "Ken Irwin" <kir...@wittenberg.edu> wrote:
> Hi all, > > I'm looking for a tool that I hope exists, and that I hope someone here > might be able to point me too. I want to select a portion of a web page (or > of the html behind it), and be able to copy it ALONG WITH whatever CSS > rules apply to that section of code. I don't want the whole 1000+ lines of > css that pertain to the page, just the 5-10-100 rules that affect the > styling of that section of the page. > > The situation: my library web page is, by university fiat, wrapped up in > our university's overall web design (see: http://www6.wittenberg.edu/lib/). > It's so complex that it's hard to extract portions of a page for reuse. > I want to take the top part of the page and re-write it in a simplified > (ie, not 1000s of lines on non-relevant CSS) so I can re-purpose the same > look-and-feel at the top of our customizable external services (discovery > layer, etc.) I could laboriously reconstruct it, but I'm hoping that > something exists to help. > > The "inspect element" feature built into most browsers is a start. I'm > hoping that some tool can leverage the same technology to look at all 50 > divs at the same time and spit out a combined pile of CSS rules that will > make it all look ok. Does such a tool exist? > > Thanks > Ken >
