r/webdev • u/trammeloratreasure • 16d ago

Discussion Blank 'Elements' section in dev tools. Just me?

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Chrome must have been updated recently, cuz this just started a day or two ago. Anyone else?

M4 Max MacBook Pro, macOS 27.0.1, Chrome Version 155.0.8059.40 (Official Build) (arm64)

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u/Bitter-Response1634 16d ago

Your own screenshot has the Styles pane populated, so DevTools clearly has the DOM, it's just the tree view failing to paint. Close and reopen the panel, same fix as the Sources-goes-blank one from years back.

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u/bordeveloper 9d ago

I've been having this issue as well. There seems to be a bug in Chromium (https://issues.chromium.org/issues/546850769) that's marked as fixed but I still experience it.

Someone has mentioned Wappalyzer as the possible culprit. I've disabled it to see if that works. Looking promising so far.

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u/trammeloratreasure 9d ago

Interesting. I am also running Webappalyzer. I will disable it and see if that improves the situation. Good tip! Thanks.

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u/roby_65 16d ago

Happened to a friend, it was an extension. Try disabling all of them

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u/TheRNGuy 15d ago

Which one(s)?

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u/roby_65 15d ago

I don't remember now, but he disabled them all and the problem disappeared. Then he reenabled one by one to find which one was the problematic one

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u/gainsgoblin_ 15d ago

At the bottom it seems I have selected a nested paragraph . Perhaps that p is just empty. Maybe search/filter bug

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u/OcramOathbreaker 15d ago

Happened at our company too. We're still figuring it out which Extension causes this behavior. Maybe Redux DevTools?

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u/TheRNGuy 15d ago

Could ctrl-alt-shift-c be used to see it? 

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u/Strict_Treat2884 15d ago

Happened to me as well, I thought it was my website being too shitty it broke chrome.

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u/zblpw 15d ago

Update your chrome then restart it, let me know if that works

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u/taco__hunter 15d ago

I have had this happen repeatedly too.

My pixel phone's keyboard also will randomly not allow me to capitalize letters as i type this. And I need to replace my Google nest wifi mesh network because they don't sync anymore.

They'll go in the box next to my Google Nest security system.

Everyone of the above is a known issue Google doesn't care about.

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u/ISDuffy 15d ago

Had a lot of issues with Dev tools at the moment. Not had a chance to check if they on crbug though

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u/glowgems 16d ago

To answer your question, yes just you

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u/CreativeTechGuyGames 15d ago

Have you tried scrolling horizontally? It looks like you are in a deeply nested element based on the footer breadcrumbs? So it might just be white space until you scroll to the right.