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Inspect and highlight CSS classes. Hover to inspect, list classes, and highlight elements.
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CSS Class Highlighter helps developers, designers, and QA quickly understand and debug page structure by revealing the CSS behind any element—without opening DevTools.
- **What it does**
- Turn on Inspect Mode, hover any element, and instantly see its tag, id, classes, and key computed styles with color swatches.
- Open the Class List panel to view a searchable inventory of all classes on the page with usage counts. Highlight matching elements on hover, copy selectors, or export the list to JSON.
- Customize highlights (outline or overlay), color, thickness, and duration to suit your workflow.
- **Why install it**
- **Faster debugging**: Identify the right class in seconds and copy a ready-to-use selector.
- **Design audits**: See class usage patterns, spot utility class overuse, and export data for reviews.
- **QA efficiency**: Highlight all elements with a class to verify styling and state across the page.
- **Works everywhere**: Runs on most websites (excludes Chrome internal pages for security).
- **Key features**
- **Inspect Mode**: Hover to see tag/id/classes, computed styles, color swatches, copy selector, and scroll-to-element.
- **Class List panel**: Counts, search, highlight-on-hover, copy `.class`, export JSON.
- **Noise reduction**: Optionally hide likely “hashed”/generated classes; tune filter level.
- **Per‑site settings**: Positions, auto-open, ignored classes, minimum occurrence threshold; synced via Chrome Sync.
- **Quick access**: Toolbar popup, context menu, and keyboard shortcuts.
- **Accessible UI**: Keyboard-friendly with ARIA labels and high-contrast styling.
- **Keyboard shortcuts**
- Toggle Inspect Mode: Ctrl+Shift+I
- Toggle last highlight: Ctrl+Shift+H
- Open popup: Ctrl+Shift+U
- **Privacy and permissions**
- No tracking or analytics. Settings are stored locally or in Chrome Sync for your account.
- Minimal permissions: `activeTab`, `storage`, and `contextMenus`. Content scripts run on the sites you visit to enable highlighting.
- **Who is it for**
- Frontend engineers, UX/designers, QA, and anyone inspecting CSS on real pages.
Tip: Highlighting is unavailable on Chrome internal pages (e.g., chrome://) and the Chrome Web Store.