I've been doing quite a bit of skinning work lately, and debugging CSS and XHTML can be extremely tedious and frustrating. Last night I happened upon a link to the beta version of Microsoft's new IE Developer Toolbar. It sounded interesting enough, so I thought I'd check it out.
To exercise it a bit, I loaded a new skin for my blog that I started a couple of months ago. The last time I worked on it I was fighting a pesky CSS glitch. After using the new toolbar to outline all the div tags and identify all CSS classes -- Bingo! The source of the problem was staring me in the face. D'oh!
Quite literally, just a couple minutes after loading it, it's earned a prominent place in my personal toolbox.
I haven't had a payoff that quickly since my high school prom. (rimshot) Thank you very much. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to tip your waitress...
tags: ie, toolbar, css, xhtml