I submitted it as http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=47686 , using your formulation because I was lazy :).
Regards, Thue On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 2:11 PM, Jonathan Nieder <jrnie...@gmail.com> wrote: > tags 585922 - moreinfo unreproducible > retitle 585922 chromium-browser-inspector: copes poorly with frames > severity 585922 normal > quit > > Thue Janus Kristensen wrote: > > > After clicking around a bit more, it seems that it only fails for pages > > using frames. There it will select the frame when you click the element. > > Chromium should instead select the element within the frame inside the > dev > > pane. > > Thanks for the clarification. Indeed, that’s true: > > 1. Visit http://java.sun.com/javase/7/docs/api/ > 2. Select Tools → Developer → Developer Tools from the browser chrome > (or press ctrl-shift-I) > 3. Choose Elements from the top of the developer tools window > 4. Click the black magnifying glass icon at the bottom of the developer > tools window, so it turns blue > 5. Click on a frame. Its <frame> tag gets selected. > 6. Click the manifying glass icon again. > 7. Click on an element within the selected frame. > > Even though individual elements are correctly highlighted when you > hover, the inspector window refuses to automagically jump to the correct > tag. > > Could you report this upstream through > http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/entry?template=Defect%20on%20Linux > so we can work on a fix there (and send a link to this bug log)? > > If you can’t because you don’t have an account or something, that’s > fine, too, but please do let us know. > > Thanks again, > Jonathan >