Kidding aside, I extensively use the “Inspect Element” technique you’ve demonstrated to obfuscate, or rather, hide sensitive data on a webpage prior to taking a screenshot or filming a screen-cast and posting it online. Yeah, I really thought I was a special cookie! This will sound like a clichÃ©, but I didn’t realize many people did this too. Or you could use this bookmarklet script and skip the devtools Right-click on the element in the code, and select 'delete element', or press the Del-key directly, to remove it from the page.

Activate the 'select element' feature of the browser, move the mouse over the element you want to delete, and click on it to jump to it in the source code. Press F12 to open the Developer Tools in Microsoft Edge while the page that you want to modify elements on is active in the browser. Right-click on the element in the source and select 'delete node' from the context menu to remove it. Activate the 'element picker' and use the mouse to select the item on the page that you want to remove from it. The page that you want to remove elements on needs to be active. Press F12 to open the Developer Tools of the web browser. Note that you may remove the underlying content as well if you remove a page element depending on how the site is set up. You need to use trial and error again, or your judgement, to find which works better on the site. Remove the element by right-clicking on the line of code in the Developer Tools area, and selecting 'hide element' or 'delete element' from the context menu. If you don't know HTML, simply use trial and error until you get it right by moving up one element at a time (usually div elements). Sometimes, parent elements may need to be selected to remove all of the element from the page. Adjust the position in the code if necessary. Click on that element to have Chrome jump to the position of it in the source code. This is done by activating the Inspector, and using your mouse to pick the element you want gone. Use the Inspector to highlight an item on the page that you want to remove from it.

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