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The inspect element button in Edge (Ctrl+Shift+C) does exactly nothing when clicked.

Inspect button

Repros 100% for me for about a year. Affects all pages including this one, Google's homepage, etc. Chrome inspect works on all the same pages, but certain contrived scenarios I started running into make it inconvenient to not have it working on Edge.

Windows 10 (Home) Version 22H2 (Build 19045.2364)
Edge version 97.0.1072.55 (Official build) (64-bit)

I'm running on a clean version of Windows without any third-party windows integrations, antivirus or hotkey remappers. It still repros when my browser extensions are turned off.

There isn't much about this online. One solution suggested going to edge://flags/#edge-overlay-scrollbars-win-style and turning off minimal scrollbars, but that didn't solve it. I'm looking for a solution that allows the inspect button to function again.

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  • This concerns devtools in Edge. F12/inspect are not the same. I used the tag for google-chrome-devtools since there's no edge equivalent. I think that tag might need scope reevaluated to include edge?
    – kettlecrab
    May 10, 2023 at 19:57
  • Which Edge version is it? I assume you're clicking multiple times on the button? As sometimes it doesn't respond for some reason and that's a problem in most Chromium-based browsers. Did you try simple debugging such as reinstalling?
    – Destroy666
    May 10, 2023 at 20:42
  • any number of clicks, on any day for about a year. It's been a long time coming to post this question. Edge version is definitely important, I'll update that in the question, thanks!
    – kettlecrab
    May 10, 2023 at 23:28
  • Your Edge is very outdated. 113 is the current version. Tr upgrading instead of reinstalling then.
    – Destroy666
    May 10, 2023 at 23:42
  • Ah, maybe that was it. Edge doesn't normally update over metered connections it looks like, and it's currently working. There might've been some issue with that version.
    – kettlecrab
    May 11, 2023 at 0:32

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Your Edge is very outdated, 97 was released in January 2022. Current version is 114. Upgrading outdated software should be one of the 1st steps to debug problems, unless you need to use a version specifically for some reason. Also, keeping web browsers outdated is not safe, as security patches are quite common part of their development. I recommend a package manager like Chocolatey to keep track of outdated software.

Issues in quite old software are hard to debug as not many people will be running that version and installer for a ~1.5 year old version seems to be unfindable in trustable sources in this case.

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It work like this :

  • Click the button
  • Move the pointer until it hovers over the element to inspect
  • Click the element or press Esc to exit this mode. The object stays selected.
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  • It does, however as stated in the first sentence, the inspect element button does exactly nothing when clicked. You might deduce I know how this works from the fact I'm using the Chrome devtools :)
    – kettlecrab
    May 10, 2023 at 23:38
  • You're not supplying enough information - you should demonstrate a website where the above procedure doesn't work. Without something concrete, we'll keep on talking only generalities.
    – harrymc
    May 11, 2023 at 7:58

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