Bug 30921 - Web Inspector: enable multiselection in Elements Panel
Summary: Web Inspector: enable multiselection in Elements Panel
Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: WebKit
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Web Inspector (Deprecated) (show other bugs)
Version: 528+ (Nightly build)
Hardware: All All
: P2 Normal
Assignee: Nobody
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Reported: 2009-10-29 12:59 PDT by Pavel Feldman
Modified: 2014-12-15 23:28 PST (History)
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Description Pavel Feldman 2009-10-29 12:59:21 PDT 
There should be a way to select multiple elements in order to:
- copy them into clipboard
- delete them at a time
- edit matching properties ?
Comment 1 Alexander Pavlov (apavlov) 2011-04-04 05:26:54 PDT 
(In reply to comment #0)
> There should be a way to select multiple elements in order to:
> - copy them into clipboard
> - delete them at a time
> - edit matching properties ?

This barely makes sense, as DOM tree is not a plain data list with multiselection. Consider this tree:

<div>
  <p>..</p>
  <a href="...">..</a>
</div>

Does selecting DIV and P at the same time make any sense? What should happen when you try to (a) copy this multiselection into a clipboard, (b) delete them? Depending on the user, the case (b) might imply that they don't want to delete the A element. Is that right and/or intuitively correct?

On a sidenote, Firebug does not allow multiselections in its DOM tree either.