Firebug equivalent for Internet Explorer

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I am looking for a tool/add-on like Firebug on Firefox ( that is immensely useful for debugging web applications) which works for Internet Explorer. Any suggestions ?

-thanks

Roxyroy answered 9/12, 2010 at 5:24 Comment(1)

css-tricks.com/snippets/html/use-firebug-in-any-browser Use Firebug in Any Browser – Chanteuse 14/3, 2015 at 14:4

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Microsoft provides the IE Developer Toolbar which provides similar functionality to Firebug.

You can also use Firebug Lite in IE6+.

Docket answered 9/12, 2010 at 5:26 Comment(3)

Later versions of IE actually have this built in. Try pressing F12. – Scandinavian 9/12, 2010 at 18:59

I think the IE Developer Toolbar is a joke. I isn't at all comparable with Firebug or the WebKit/Chrome Inspector. And I never got Firebug Lite to work. :/ – Neilneila 28/1, 2012 at 15:19

If you can't get it to work try using the debug channel. It forces firebug to show regardless of the environment. This solved it for me in IE9 because the developer toolbar is seen as a version of firebug – Biquadratic 14/6, 2012 at 3:9

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Check this Firebug Lite For IE. Also there is DebugBar, IE developer toolbar are few other names.

Alexandros answered 9/12, 2010 at 5:28 Comment(2)

DebugBar can't debug jQuery UI, don't know about Firebug, but I'm still forced to use Firefox + Firebug for proper debugging – Barbitone 2/11, 2012 at 9:20

DebugBar is useless without actual debugging feature! – Vivle 7/7, 2016 at 4:38

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Also wanted to mention, for network analysis, similar to Firebug's Net tab, I don't think IE dev tools offers as good an alternative. You can then use Fiddler/Fiddler 2 and it's related plugins.

And another option for that that I like is ieHttpHeaders. It won't give you HTTP response body/data but it gives you the HTTP request headers + HTTP POST parameters (excluding file uploads, binary data, and multi-part form POSTs), and HTTP response headers. Good tool to have as companion to your other IE tools.

Contiguity answered 24/8, 2012 at 23:14 Comment(0)

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Go to Settings and select F12 Developer Tools in IE. I use IE10 and it works.

You can also press F12.

The usage is similar to Firebug. I like this interface more, it shows the color of all color-hex values for easy reference.

Welldisposed answered 5/10, 2014 at 5:32 Comment(2)

This Works for Internet Explorer 9 and up. Nowadays it is the best solution. You don't need to install anything.. – Fairfax 2/7, 2015 at 15:30

Yeah but how do you debug Javascript in IE8? I've set breakpoints, but the entire jscript function runs anyway! useless – Vivle 7/7, 2016 at 4:39

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