Firebug Terminology
From FirebugWiki
The Firebug team uses some special phrases for parts of Firebug. This list was created with the intention to give you an overview over the terminology together with a description of the things and therefore help you to understand what we are talking about at getfirebug.com, in issues, forums etc..
| Term | Description |
|---|---|
| Module | Logical part of web development (like HTML, CSS, DOM etc.) |
| Panel Bar | Main bar including the Firebug options menu, navigation history buttons, a tab list of the different modules of Firebug, a search field and buttons for controlling the display and activation of Firebug |
| Panel | Tab inside the panel bar including special functionality of a module or an extension |
| Console Panel | Panel containing error console and JavaScript command execution functionality |
| HTML Panel | Panel offering information about and functionality for manipulation of the markup structure of the current website/file |
| CSS Panel | Panel containing functionality for CSS information and manipulation of the different CSS containing files of the current website |
| Script Panel | Panel including functionality for JavaScript debugging |
| DOM Panel | Panel with information about the DOM tree of the currently displayed website and functionality for manipulating it |
| Net Panel | Panel offering information about the network requests made during the page load |
| Panel Toolbar | Tool bar inside a panel containing panel related general functionality |
| Side Panel | Tab inside an area on the right side of some panels including related functionality to the main module |
| Options Mini Menu | Menu with general options to the panel or tab |
| Element Path | "Breadcrumb list" of the selected node inside the node view up to the root element of the document |
| Node View | Dynamic tree view of the markup based structure of the page inside the HTML Panel |
| Inspector | Tool to select an element inside the currently shown web page for further investigation |
| Edit Mode | Mode of some panels for direct manipulation of the underlying source code, which can be activated through the "Edit" button inside the panel menu |
| Break On Button | Toggle button inside the panel menu of some panels for stopping JavaScript execution on a specific event |
| Status Bar Icon | Firebug symbol inside the status bar of Firefox |
| Command Line | Feature of the console panel to enter one-line JavaScript code |
| Command Editor | Text editor inside the console panel for entering JavaScript code consisting of several lines |
| Search Field | Top right field of the panel bar for searching inside the currently active panel |
| CSS Location Menu | Menu button inside the toolbar of the CSS Panel for switching between the different CSS files included in the currently displayed website |
| Script Location Menu | Menu button inside the toolbar of the Script Panel for switching between the different JavaScript containing files included in the currently displayed website and (based on the script filter) also eval() and event scripts |
| Eval() Scripts | JavaScript code blocks created dynamically through XML HTTP Requests |
| Event Scripts | JavaScript code blocks created dynamically through JavaScript events |
