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The website I'm debugging in ie6 has lots and lots of inefficient legacy code and when I try and run firebug lite to try and figure out a tricky hasLayout issue it crashes ie6.

Is there an alternative to firebug lite which simply recreates firebug's html tab and inspect element features?

edit I tried MODI, but as it only offers an inspect feature, with no DOM traversal, it's useless for debugging elements which aren't showing up on the screen because of a hasLayout bug.

wheresrhys
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  • You could go debugging the good old way by removing and adding problematic elements. There is a set of properties that trigger hasLayout - just start applying those and add in and out your problematic elements. – easwee Feb 29 '12 at 15:41

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Is there an alternative to firebug lite which simply recreates firebug's html tab and inspect element features?

Try the Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar, which you can install for IE6/7.

Later versions of IE include the very similar Developer Tools.

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  • Can't believe I didn't think of it myself! Also reminded me about http://www.debugbar.com/, which is also pretty good. – wheresrhys Feb 29 '12 at 16:10