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RoccoB
RoccoB

Reputation: 2579

IE11 Developer Tools' "Find" field greyed out

I'm in IE11 Developer Tools and I do a Ctrl+F. Once I hit the last search result, the "Find" window grays out and I am unable to ever use search again.

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Tried hitting ESC, pressing Ctrl+F again, but nothing allows me to regain control of the "Find" box until I restart the browser. Ideas?

Upvotes: 26

Views: 5683

Answers (4)

relief.melone
relief.melone

Reputation: 3322

In case someone else stumbles in here. I have found this to be helpful. There's two steps being described but for me Step 1 alone was the solution

Step 1:

Press Windows key + R and then type “iexplore -extoff” without quotes and press ENTER.

Greetings Chris

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/ie/forum/ie11-iewindows8_1/developer-tools-f12-not-working-grayed-out-in/f8cce77d-efee-488e-a9a8-729ef9189321

Upvotes: 1

Pwnstar
Pwnstar

Reputation: 2235

Since IE is stucked in the search while running a web application you can use following

Possible Workaround:

  1. Ctrl + A
  2. Ctrl + C
  3. Open Notepad
  4. Ctrl + V
  5. Ctrl + F

:-)

Upvotes: 0

cakidnyc
cakidnyc

Reputation: 499

I have the same problem just above every time I use F12 on my application. It's very annoying.

My lame work-around is to first find the code in my local source (i use eclipse) then, back in F12, I use the suitcase icon to find my file. Then I use 'ctrl-g' to go to the line.

F12 has been this way for me for since the beginning of IE11 ... I'm rather surprised such a basic feature can be broken for so long.

Upvotes: 8

Andy Sterland
Andy Sterland

Reputation: 1936

Unfortunately search operations isn't something that can be cancelled. When this happens you're stuck :(. We're going to be working on correcting this for a future update to F12.

Out of curiosity do you have a page you can share that we can reproduce the issue on? Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

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