Any Way to Save a CSS Diff Rather Than Save The Entire Stylesheet in Chrome Dev Tools

How to get a summary of your CSS changes in Chrome dev tools?

You can see all changes via the Changes Drawer

In Dev Tools, you can locate the Changes Drawer via either:

• A) Open Command Palette (Ctrl + Shift + P) and type "changes"

  
  
  
  

• B) Open Drawer (Esc), click on the more options menu (triple dot), and select Changes

  

Further Reading

• How to get a summary of your CSS changes in Chrome dev tools?
• Export CSS changes from inspector (webkit, firebug, etc)

Updates

• Dev Tools 98 added More precise changes to automatically pretty prints changes
• Issue #1296143 opened User-Select: none in Changes drawer makes it very hard to utilize

Export CSS changes from inspector (webkit, firebug, etc)

I have found the answer to this, at least as of Chrome v14.

While in the Elements section, just click on the "filename:linenumber" link next to the CSS rules. The CSS file that shows up will contain all of the modifications.

This place exactly:

Chrome - disable all styles from specific .css file

If you want to remove the style for the remainder of the page session, open the DOM Inspector, locate the <link> or <style> element which links the style sheet, and remove the element. This causes all associated styles to be removed.

If you only want to disable the style sheet temporarily, add a new attribute disabled to the <link>/<style> element. Remove this attribute to enable the style sheet again.

If the site contains lots of distracting DOM elements, you can also visit the console, and something like document.styleSheets[0].disabled = true; (where 0 is the index of the style element).

Fastest way to add a new blank stylesheet in Chrome's inspector developer tool (Inspector stylesheet)

I don't have one easy shortcut, but I can get you there a tiny bit faster:

1. F12 to open DevTools.
2. button at top of Styles-panel on Elements tab, to create inspector-stylesheet.
3. Doubleclick to open.

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Once inspector-stylesheet is created, and I close it or close DevTools, how to find it again?

• If you've closed DevTools when the inspector-stylesheet was still open, just go to the Sources tab directly (in DevTools, topbar) and the inspector-stylesheet should still be open.
• If you've closed the inspector-stylesheet itself, then, while on the Sources tab, press Ctrl+P and type "inspector-stylesheet", usually after "in..." you will already see the inspector-stylesheet at the top of the suggestion-list of available files.
  
  And it should also still be visible at the top of the Styles-panel on the Elements tab, where you first created it.

Developer Tools, saving changes made to live site

Simply copy/pasting them would be the easiest thing.

There is no way to actually save changes to a stylesheet directly from the developer console/inspector if that's what you're asking.

Disable automatic saving of CSS changes in Chrome Developer Tools

Alas, I learned after reading a post by Google's dev relations person
that the automatic save cannot be disabled and it seems that's the way
it's going to stay.
html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/developertools/revolutions2013

– tommypyatt Feb 21 '14 at 14:22

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