A quickie script that saved a lot of manually combing through the DOM
Someone noticed that certain elements in our React app were not getting the desired font-face, instead getting plain-old Arial. I wanted to be able to programmatically sniff them out in the browser, so here's what I came up with, mainly thanks to an answer on Stack Overflow for finding all elements on a page, and the MDN documentation for the getComputedStyle function which browsers helpfully expose.
Whack this in your browser's Javascript console and you should be able to hover on any element that is listed to see it on the page:
// Start where React attaches to the DOM const reactRoot = document.getElementById("root"); // Get all elements below that const kids = reactRoot.getElementsByTagName("*"); for (var e of kids) { if (window.getComputedStyle(e)["font-family"] === "Arial") { console.log(e); // Allows it to be hovered in console } }
In case you were wondering, the culprit here was a button that didn't have its font-family set - and Chrome (perhaps others) will use its default (user-agent stylesheet) font style for that in preference to what you have set on the body, which you might be forgiven for assuming gets cascaded down.