Impossible to Edit Styles in Chrome

Cant edit CSS STYLE properties (grayed out & blocked) in chrome

Closing the dev tools and opening it again fixes this temporarily. Here's the official bug report: https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=796629

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

What does it mean when a CSS rule is grayed out in Chrome's element inspector?

For me the current answers didn't explain the issue fully enough, so I am adding this answer which hopefully might be useful to others.

Greyed/dimmed out text, can mean either

1. it's a default rule/property the browser applies, which includes defaulted short-hand properties.
2. It involves inheritance which is a bit more complicated.

Inheritance

Note: Chrome dev tools "style" panel will display a rule set, because one or more rules from the set are being applied to the currently selected DOM node.
I guess, for the sake of completeness, dev tools shows all the rules from that set, whether they are applied or not.

In the case where a rule is applied to the currently selected element due to inheritance (i.e. the rule was applied to an ancestor, and the selected element inherited it), chrome will again display the entire ruleset.

The rules which are applied to the currently selected element appear in normal text.

If a rule exists in that set but is not applied because it's a non-inheritable property (e.g. background color), it will appear as greyed/dimmed text.

here is an article that give a good explanation - (Note: the relevant item is at the bottom of the article - figure 21 - unfortunately the relevant section doesn't have a heading) -http://commandlinefanatic.com/cgi-bin/showarticle.cgi?article=art033

Excerpt from the article

This [inheritance scenario] can occasionally create a bit of confusion, because defaulted
short-hand properties; figure 21 illustrates the defaulted short-hand
properties of the font property along with the non-inherited
properties. Just be aware of the context that you're looking at when
examining elements.

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