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  <p><strong>Possible Duplicate:</strong><br>
  <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/361635/debugging-javascript-in-ie7">Debugging JavaScript in IE7</a>  </p>
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<p>Firefox has Web Developer plugin and Firebug for troubleshooting html/css/javascript issues. Google Chrome and Safari have a very similar console and right-click options for "Inspect Element".</p>

<p>Does IE7 have anything similar for troubleshooting layout/html/css issues?</p>

[{'answer_id': 56618, 'author': 'Gulzar Nazim', 'author_id': 4337, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4337', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p><a href="http://projects.nikhilk.net/WebDevHelper/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Web Development Helper</a></p>\n\n<p><em>Web Development Helper is a free browser extension for Internet Explorer that provides a set of tools and utilities for the Web developer, esp. Ajax and ASP.NET developers. The tool provides features such as a DOM inspector, an HTTP tracing tool, and script diagnostics and immediate window.\nWeb Development Helper works against IE6+, and requires the .NET Framework 2.0 or greater to be installed on the machine.\nOnce installed, the tool can be activated using the Tools | Web Development Helper command. You can also customize your browser\'s toolbar to add a button for this command to facilitate frequest use. Clicking on the menu command or browser button brings up the tool\'s console window and set of commands.\nPage Features:\nDOM inspector allows viewing all elements, selected elements, or elements matching an ID or CSS class, their attributes and styles. \nCapturing a screen shot of the current page. \nViewing page information such as metadata, tags, and linked resources.</em> .......</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56619, 'author': 'Brian Singh', 'author_id': 5471, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5471', 'pm_score': 7, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p>Yes - The Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar</p>\n\n<p><a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=95E06CBE-4940-4218-B75D-B8856FCED535&amp;displaylang=en" rel="noreferrer">Download details: Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56620, 'author': 'Jarrett Meyer', 'author_id': 5834, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/5834', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Check out the <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=18359" rel="nofollow noreferrer">IE Developer toolboar</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56621, 'author': 'Joel Coehoorn', 'author_id': 3043, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/3043', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>There\'s a <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=e59c3964-672d-4511-bb3e-2d5e1db91038&amp;displaylang=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">toolbar</a> you can get but it still doesn\'t match up to Firefox, especially for javascript debugging.</p>\n\n<p>IE8 will be a huge improvement for development.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56625, 'author': 'Vaibhav', 'author_id': 380, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/380', 'pm_score': -1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Actually, the best add-on for developers to IE would be <a href="http://www.fiddlertool.com/fiddler/version.asp" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Fiddler</a>. It has a number of features that the other browsers possess.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 56634, 'author': 'Tom', 'author_id': 4753, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4753', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>I have also used <a href="http://www.debugbar.com/" rel="noreferrer">Debug Bar</a>.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1026125, 'author': 'Harry', 'author_id': 126787, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/126787', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can also use IE watch, which is like firebug, but you need to buy it. It is a 30 days trail version.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1433745, 'author': 'Esteban Küber', 'author_id': 34813, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/34813', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>You can also use <a href="http://getfirebug.com/lite.html" rel="noreferrer">Firebug Lite</a>, wich works on IE, Opera and Safari.</p>\n\n<p>It\'s a Javascript implementation that you can load with a simple bookmarklet.</p>\n\n<p>As SO doesn\'t allow Javascript, here is the bookmarklet source code (just copy paste to your browser location bar (always make sure it\'s safe before executing random javascript (In any case check the first link)))</p>\n\n<pre><code>javascript:var%20firebug=document.createElement(\'script\');firebug.setAttribute(\'src\',\'http://getfirebug.com/releases/lite/1.2/firebug-lite-compressed.js\');document.body.appendChild(firebug);(function(){if(window.firebug.version){firebug.init();}else{setTimeout(arguments.callee);}})();void(firebug);\n</code></pre>\n\n<p>Firebug Lite supports <a href="http://getfirebug.com/console.html" rel="noreferrer">all basic commands</a> of Firebug.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 3710588, 'author': 'Horse', 'author_id': 447529, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/447529', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>unfortunately it seems microsoft have discontinued it, the page for the toolbar now just says 'We are sorry, the page you requested cannot be found.'</p>\n\n<p>I reckon because its built into 8 they have removed it for download, and cant be bothered with helping out us devs who are forced to make our projects work in their more archaic browsers :'(</p>\n\n<p>Also before anyone says it, IE8 compatability mode != IE7</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 5791859, 'author': '81prelude', 'author_id': 725565, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/725565', 'pm_score': 1, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The following is specifically for IE7, other versions are probably similar.</p>\n\n<p>Here is the new link to the developmment tools from microsoft.(as of 4-26-2011)  <a href="http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=95e06cbe-4940-4218-b75d-b8856fced535" rel="nofollow">IE Development Tools</a></p>\n\n<p>Once installed, you will need to enable the toolbar.  </p>\n\n<p>To Enable, click on <code>Tools | Manage Add-Ons | Enable or Disable Add-ons</code>, to enable the addon.</p>\n\n<p>To add the icon to the IE Toolbar, right click on the <code>IE menu | Customize Command Bar | Add or Remove Commands</code>.  Add the "&lt; (arrow) >" icon.</p>\n\n<p>Hope that helps.</p>\n'}]
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