Question

I am using Firebug to inspect the elements of a webpage. On the right hand of the page there is a “style” tab that list all the CSS styling for a given tag. These CSS styling are coming from a linked CSS page.

What I am looking to do is somehow copy a set of divs with the CSS hardcoded in the div. This way I can copy and paste the elements and have the exact same styling. Is this possible to do with Firebug or perhaps another tool?

Answer 1

I don’t know about Firebug, but you could build a script to do it.

List the CSS you want to copy (every property you believe is required to make it portable) and then loop through in JS and getComputedStyle(). Then build a ; delimited list of property:value pairs, and assign it to the style attribute if your element and all children.

This doesn’t look like an easy task – and you will no doubt run into problems.