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Development Tools

Posted by Holly Logan
Holly Logan
7,142 Points

Locate HTML using Chrome Dev Tools

Hi, I want to change a few words in the html of a Wordpress plugin. I have located where to do this in Chrome Dev Tools but how do I find out which file the HTML is in?

https://imgur.com/a/mDKzs

I just need to change the word "Country" but I don't know how to locate this file. Where is the path so I can go in via FTP and change the word?

Thanks!

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,269 Points

The DevTools analyze the page but they can't identify files. In some cases, you can derive the file name from the URL (as shown on the "sources" tab). But a CMS like WordPress uses PHP to build pages dynamically, so the actual source of the word in question may be inside the database.

But you could start by opening a search tab (Ctrl-shift-F) and look for the word in the sources. If you're lucky, the source URL will correspond to an actual file that contains it. if not, you may be able to identify the script that builds the page and then examine that to see how it gets the content.

Happy hunting!