Firebug equivalent for Internet Explorer

debugging internet-explorer firefox webdev.webserver

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Solution 1

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

You can also use Firebug Lite in IE6+.

Solution 2

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

Solution 3

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.

Solution 4

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.

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kabir

Updated on July 05, 2022

Comments

kabir almost 2 years

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
- zloctb over 9 years
  
  css-tricks.com/snippets/html/use-firebug-in-any-browser Use Firebug in Any Browser
jamil ahmed over 13 years

Later versions of IE actually have this built in. Try pressing F12.
panzi over 12 years

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. :/
georgephillips about 12 years

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
Dejan Janjušević over 11 years

DebugBar can't debug jQuery UI, don't know about Firebug, but I'm still forced to use Firefox + Firebug for proper debugging
Naypa almost 9 years

This Works for Internet Explorer 9 and up. Nowadays it is the best solution. You don't need to install anything..
Fandango68 almost 8 years

DebugBar is useless without actual debugging feature!
Fandango68 almost 8 years

Yeah but how do you debug Javascript in IE8? I've set breakpoints, but the entire jscript function runs anyway! useless