{"id":708,"date":"2012-01-19T11:35:42","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T21:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/?p=708"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:30:16","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:30:16","slug":"debugging-websites-for-iphone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/debugging-websites-for-iphone\/","title":{"rendered":"Debugging Websites for iPhone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>I created a website that looked great in IE7+, FF, Chrome, and Safari, but on the iPhone a few things looked off. \u00a0Problems could be from the viewport being 480px wide but the website is 1000px wide so using percentages can mess it up&#8230; that&#8217;s another post sorry. \u00a0The problem is, how do I use something like firebug to debug the css and html in the iPhone mobile Safari browser?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p><strong><\/strong><br \/>\nThe best solution is if you have a Mac OS X and the iOS 5 SDK. \u00a0If you don&#8217;t have a Mac or \u00a0you don&#8217;t have iOS5 SDK and don&#8217;t want to download it from the Mac App Store, move on to the next solution. \u00a0This solution involves a great FREE tool to debug, profile, and inspect \u00a0web applications running in the iPhone simulator is <a title=\"iWebInspector\" href=\"http:\/\/www.iwebinspector.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">iWebInspector <\/a>by Max Firtman. \u00a0 This tool, as it says in the tool, enables a private API available on the iOS 5 framework. \u00a0It lets you inspect the web page or webapp \u00a0similar to firefox. \u00a0To use it:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Download, install, and open \u00a0iWebInspector<\/li>\n<li>Click on the &#8220;Open iOS Simulator&#8221; button<\/li>\n<li>In the Simulator, open Safari and go to the URL you wish to debug.<\/li>\n<li>In iWebInspector click on the &#8220;Load from Safari&#8221; button.<\/li>\n<li>Click on the link it displays<\/li>\n<li>Now you should see the DOM and all it&#8217;s CSS attributes.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>One thing annoying is that you can&#8217;t add CSS attributes to existing CSS classes. \u00a0A way around this is to add attributes to the element.style section for the element you want to alter. \u00a0Another thing I noticed is that the Simulator freezes from time to time. \u00a0To &#8220;unfreeze&#8221; it I had to quit both the simulator and iWebInspector and start over. \u00a0Other that it&#8217;s great!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" style=\"border-style: initial;border-color: initial;border-width: 0px\" title=\"Firebug Lite\" src=\"http:\/\/getfirebug.com\/wiki\/images\/5\/56\/Flaming-firebug-logo-with-text.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"64\" \/><br \/>\nA second option to debug a website in the iPhone is by using <a title=\"Firebug Lite\" href=\"http:\/\/getfirebug.com\/firebuglite\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Firebug Lite<\/a>. \u00a0Here&#8217;s what you do:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Open this page in your iPhone browser and bookmark it.<\/li>\n<li>Rename the bookmark to &#8220;Firebug&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>Tap the code below twice and choose &#8220;Select All&#8221; and then &#8220;Copy&#8221;.\n<pre>javascript:(function(F,i,r,e,b,u,g,L,I,T,E){if(F.getElementById(b))return;E=F[i+'NS']&amp;&amp;F.documentElement.namespaceURI;E=E?F[i+'NS'](E,'script'):F[i]('script');E[r]('id',b);E[r]('src',I+g+T);E[r](b,u);(F[e]('head')[0]||F[e]('body')[0]).appendChild(E);E=new%20Image;E[r]('src',I+L);})(document,'createElement','setAttribute','getElementsByTagName','FirebugLite','4','firebug-lite.js','releases\/lite\/latest\/skin\/xp\/sprite.png','https:\/\/getfirebug.com\/','#startOpened');<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<li>Edit the Firebug bookmark. \u00a0Remove the URL and paste the copied code into the bookmark.<\/li>\n<li>Save it.<\/li>\n<li>Go to the page you want to debug<\/li>\n<li>Once the page loads, select the bookmark named &#8220;Firebug&#8221; and it will run 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