Add 'Inspect' to right click menu

Plugins ideas
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Use case or problem

Whenever I inspect obsidian, opening up the dev tools with ctrl+shift+i, I have to dig through the surrounding context of the page before finding whatever element I’m looking for (something I often do when analyzing the obsidian CSS to figure out why my CSS isn’t applying the way I expect it to). This is time-consuming.

Proposed solution

In Google Chrome, when you right click on a part of the page, the button “inspect” pops up
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This pulls up the chrome dev tools, jumping to the element your mouse was over in the elements page.

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I would like to request a similar inspect button be added to the right-click menu of obsidian.
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I was just thinking about posting this! +1 to this for sure

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I would love this feature. I think it would greatly aid in finding elements for theme developers.

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No need. Just click on this icon and you can directly select any element:

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The downside with that button is that it is not accessible for users who use only the keyboard to navigate. It requires the mouse to highlight sections.

Having this as a plugin or built-in feature would alleviate that need.

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Two immediate options which come to mind:

  1. Press Ctrl + [ to switch to the Elements tab and use the keyboard to navigate.

or

  1. Press Ctrl + Shift + C to start the mouse picker tool, then turn on Mouse Keys in Windows with keyboard shortcut, and use the arrow keys to move the mouse then turn off again afterwards.

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