Safari Web Inspector - Search Elements

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Safari Web Inspector - Search Elements

Hello,

I have a question, or perhaps a suggestion for improvement. When I open Web Inspector in Safari and press Command+F, the field for entering XPath appears. However, this field is quite small and only fits a few characters.

Is it possible to resize this field, for example, to match the current width of the page? I couldn’t find any settings to adjust its size. When a longer XPath is entered, it becomes hard to read and navigate because it doesn’t display the entire input.

Thank you for your response.

iMac 27″, macOS 11.7

Posted on Dec 16, 2024 1:23 PM

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John Galt

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Dec 17, 2024 2:59 PM in response to marsch1768

For what it's worth I agree with you. I initially thought that if you were to move the web inspector to the bottom of the page vs. the right or left side it might offer an opportunity to make that field wider. Unfortunately it doesn't, it makes no difference, and I can find no reason the field is so arbitrarily narrow.

Feedback is the way to make your request known, and if it helps I will do the same.

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John Galt

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Dec 17, 2024 11:54 AM in response to marsch1768

Product Feedback - Apple

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marsch1768 Author

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Dec 17, 2024 2:46 PM in response to John Galt

Thanks for the link, John. I wrote to them, so I will see what they reply. It's just a small detail, but I'm currently studying an SDET Bootcamp, and my colleagues and I came across this issue while working on XPath. Chrome and Firefox display this input field across the full inspector window. However, as part of our training, we also want to test our scripts in Safari. Take care. Martin.

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marsch1768 Author

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Dec 18, 2024 12:34 AM in response to John Galt

Hello John.

Yes yes, I also tried left and right and no change.

I'm new here, so thank you very much for your help on how to solve such a request.

Have a nice day, Martin

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