Bug 220831

Summary:	Web Inspector: Unhide hidden characters (second)
Product:	WebKit	Reporter:	Ebrahim Byagowi <ebrahim>
Component:	Web Inspector	Assignee:	Nobody <webkit-unassigned>
Status:	RESOLVED DUPLICATE
Severity:	Normal	CC:	bburg, gsnedders, inspector-bugzilla-changes, mmaxfield, smoley
Priority:	P2
Version:	Safari 14
Hardware:	All
OS:	All

Description Ebrahim Byagowi 2021-01-21 15:04:56 PST

This feature was actually implemented on Bug 93888 and then removed on Web Inspector UI revamp landed after Blink's fork so I am filling another issue as a request for revival of the work has been done there inside WebKit!

My request originally there,

> It would be nice if inspector could make hidden characters (like &lrm; &rlm; &zwnj; &zwj; &nbsp; ...) visible and show them to web developer for better debugging.
> You can see list of hidden characters on http://getfirebug.com/developer/api/firebug1.6X/symbols/src/content_firebug_lib.js.html line 2186 to 2194.

After the fork I've filed https://crbug.com/463642 and https://crbug.com/460044 against Chrome so the list eventually ended up to be https://source.chromium.org/chromium/chromium/src/+/master:third_party/devtools-frontend/src/front_end/elements/ElementsTreeOutline.js;l=1679?q=MappedCharToEntity&ss=chromium which I think it is safe to use the updated here instead.

I'll try to send a patch about this (actually it is as easy as https://pastebin.com/1hVMRLD3 ) however others are also welcomed if I happened to forget about this.

Comment 1 Ebrahim Byagowi 2021-01-21 15:10:09 PST

Oops, https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=181302 also filed in the meanwhile, will merge one to another.

Comment 2 Smoley 2021-01-21 19:37:52 PST


*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 181302 ***