Visualize elements on page with the outline style
Written byPhuoc Nguyen
Created
23 Feb, 2021
Last updated
02 Apr, 2021
Category
Trick
Tags
DOM, JavaScript
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The outline property is useful when you want to visualize elements on the page. In the following sample code, we iterate over all the elements and set the
`outline` property with a random hex color:js
const randomColor = () => `#${Math.random().toString(16).slice(2, 8).padEnd(6, '0')}`;
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('*'), (ele) => (ele.style.outline = `1px solid ${randomColor()}`));Of course, you will need an opposite command to reset the
`outline` property:js
[].forEach.call(document.querySelectorAll('*'), (ele) => ele.style.removeProperty('outline'));You can change the selector from
`*` to whatever you want to match the set of particular elements, for example:js
// Set the outline for links only
[].forEach.call(
document.querySelectorAll('a'),
...
);
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