Dear Console, show me the element at the current cursor position

document.addEventListener('mousemove', e => {
    console.log(
        document.elementFromPoint(e.x,e.y)
    )
})

Topics: html, debugging

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What?

This is a repository of little scripts you can use in the browser console to achieve the described task. Hence, "Dear Console,ā€¦".

How?

To use the scripts shown here, you need to open the browser developer tools (pressing F12), open the Console tool, paste them in and hit `Enter`. If you use a Chromium based browser (Chrome, Edge, Brave, Opera, Vivaldiā€¦) you can also use them in Snippets.

Who?

This collection is written and maintained by Chris Heilmann and you can contribute to it or request features on GitHub.