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Start your free trialAmbria Phillips
8,483 PointsYou are ______ going to mess up someone’s hard work if you play with dev tools
I need help
3 Answers
Bryan Laraway
13,366 PointsYou are not going to mess up someone’s hard work if you play with dev tools.
Mike Atkinson
6,882 PointsHi Ambria,
No need to worry! When your browser load a page, it gets sent a copy of all the information needed to render that page. Basically, you browser now has a local copy of all the information.
When you open up dev tools, you can see a lot of this information. Now since what you can see in dev tools is a copy, you can play with it, edit it, mess it up, save it, change, do what ever you like. The original site is still safely on the server on that website, or wherever it came from.
For example, try opening www.google.com
in a new tab. Open web tools, and change stuff like the color, some words, whatever. Then hit refresh.... Your browser then asks www.google.com
for the information again, and all your changes are gone again.
Please use dev tools! It's a great way to learn and fiddle with things. You can't break anything permanently and you certainty won't affect anyone else's work.
Belma Gaukrodger
17,826 PointsUnfortunately, when I submit NOT as the answer to the above question, it returns the answer as wrong :-( Could you please check the answer? Thank you in advance.