How to pass element to inspect into devtools frontend (remote debugging)?

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Alexander Ewering

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Dec 12, 2015, 4:22:05 PM12/12/15

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Hello,

I'm calling the devtools over remote debugging (localhost:9222) with an URL similar to the following:

http://localhost:9222/devtools/inspector.html?ws=localhost:9222/devtools/page/B8597319-77F8-4797-9882-5477FC198F9A

This works fine and opens the developer tools for the correct page. My current problem is:Is it possible to directly pass the ELEMENT to inspect, too? I'm developing a browser as a Chrome app, and I'm working on the right-click (context) menu, and I'd like to have an option "Inspect element" that works like Chrome's. As I said, I managed to find out the page ID and pass that, but I'm missing a way to pass the element.