How to use Chrome developer tools to test layouts

Live-code sites with Chrome Dev Tools

You've been there before. After several long days of work, you're sitting with a customer and he's pointing to the colour of the border and asking you if it could be a shade darker, or maybe a little more blue? You take your vague instructions and go back to the drawing board. Or maybe you are a frontend developer and the layout of the page does not look quite right with the actual live data you are viewing. How will you know where the problem is? Maybe you will go back to the code, make changes, save, refresh the page, upload to your test server and test it with that data again.

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