CSSViewer

A simple CSS property viewer.

What is CSSViewer?

CSSViewer is a Chrome extension originally developed as a Firefox add-on by Nicolas Huon. This simple CSS property viewer allows users to easily inspect any element of a webpage. To use CSSViewer, click the toolbar icon and then hover over any element you want to inspect in the current page. The extension is open source with its code available on GitHub. For its proper functioning, CSSViewer requires permission to access your history and website data, but ensures privacy by not collecting or transmitting any personal data.

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By: M.ed

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Users: 200,000+

Rating: 4.41 (366)

Version: 1.7 (Last updated: 2017-03-26)

Creation date: 2017-03-26

Risk impact: High risk impact

Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

tabs
http://*/*
https://*/*
file://*/*
contextMenus

Size: 308.22K

URLs: Website

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Chrome-Stats Rank

# 1546 ▼ 9

Other rankings

#486 in Developer Tools

#14 in viewer keyword 77 ▲ 4

#43 in source code keyword 29 ▼ 7

#51 in property keyword 17 ▼ 1

#64 in firefox keyword 23 ▼ 2

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Not available on Firefox

Not available on Edge

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Summary

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CSSViewer is a simple CSS properties viewer originally made by Nicolas Huon as a FireFox add-on (2006-2008).

How to use : To enable CSSViewer, simply click the toolbar icon and then hover any element on you want to inspect in current page.

Open source inside: Source code can be found on GitHub at https://github.com/miled/cssviewer

Privacy : In order to work properly, CSSViewer requires the permission to access to your history and website data. However, CSSViewer do not collect nor will ever transmit any of your private data.

Known issues :

CSSViewer will not work in any opened tabs before installing it nor in the Google chrome store (This is how Google roll :)
The style may broke sometimes depending on the site you are surfing.
Patches are welcome.

User reviews

User reviews summary

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Pros

Useful for front end developers
Ability to copy structured CSS
Interactive and easy to use

Cons

Outdated and abandoned
Popup box may be too close to inspected object
Yellow font on white background makes details impossible to see

Most mentioned

Great work by developer
Very useful
Keyboard shortcut
Useful for front end developers

Recent reviews

Great work by developer. Much needed App

Discover With Shy, 2023-11-28

The fonts for the css values are (yellow color) on my (white background page), this makes it imposible to see the details.

eM eN, 2022-06-03

Naylson, 2023-12-04

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Safety

Risk impact

CSSViewer is risky to use as it requires a number of sensitive permissions that can potentially harm your browser and steal your data. Exercise caution when installing this extension. Review carefully before installing. We recommend that you only install CSSViewer if you trust the publisher.