20.10 Browser Developer Tools - A Web Developer's Best Friend

Whatever your preferred browser, one of the most powerful tools to help you out as a web developer will be the browser developer tools available. The heart of any developer tool is the "console" tab and this is the most important tab to learn about as a web developer with Visual LANSA (although there are lots of other useful things in the developer tools). This console is useful for the following reasons:

Errors and warnings that occur on a web page are logged into the console

Tracing is logged into the console

JavaScript commands for interacting with a web page can be executed in the console.

To activate the Browser Console use F12 when in the browser and select "Console" in the menu.

Look online for resources to learn about the browser developer tools.

To learn more about how to use Visual LANSA in conjunction with the developer tools, refer to The Console.

Note: You cannot right click on a Visual LANSA Web Page to access the developer tools by inspecting an element.