Firebug Inspect Mechanism

[Mário Costa]

Hi to all!

I would like to know if any one can help-me pinpointing, where firebug, catches the mouse events and then decides or not to highlight the htrml element?
Does firebug attaches a mouse event handler to the dom document of the html page?

Thanks a lot!

Best Regards,
Mario Costa

[Sebastian Zartner]

Yes, the inspector logic attaches multiple mouse event handlers:

https://github.com/firebug/firebug/blob/962d82bd1d31171a39a57aa7f5b14da8e1d164a3/extension/content/firebug/html/inspector.js#L497

The inspector then delegates the logic for which elements to highlight to the panel:

https://github.com/firebug/firebug/blob/962d82bd1d31171a39a57aa7f5b14da8e1d164a3/extension/content/firebug/html/inspector.js#L275

Sebastian