CSS Inspector for Any Element: View and Copy CSS Values

You open the Elements panel in DevTools to find the CSS of one element, and you meet a wall of rules. A CSS inspector does the opposite. You point at the element, and SuperchargeInspect shows the styles you care about: the font, the colors, and the spacing. You read them, then click any value to copy it. SuperchargeInspect is a CSS viewer extension that works on the page you are on, without opening DevTools.

What the CSS Inspector Shows

The panel groups everything into three sections: Typography, Colors and Box.

Typography. The font family is the declared font-family stack. The panel shows the first family in the list and copies the full stack when you take it. This is the font the page asks for. It does not check which font is actually rendered. It also gives you the type size, the weight, and the line height.

Colors. You get the text color, the background color, and the border color when one is present. Opaque colors are shown as hex. A color with partial transparency is shown as the raw rgba() value, and a fully transparent one is shown as transparent.

Box. Padding and margin are shown on all four sides. The panel lists the gap, the border-radius, and the display. A box model diagram shows the margin, border, and padding layers around the content, with the content width and height in CSS pixels.

Copying CSS Values

You copy CSS values one at a time. Every value in the panel is a button. Click it and that single value goes to your clipboard, so you can paste just the padding-top or just the text color.

When you want the whole set, use Copy text only, in the More ways to copy menu. It includes the full list of observed styles for the element: the font family, the type size, the colors, the layout, the gap, padding and margin on each side, and the radius.

These are the computed values the page resolved for this element. The font family is still the declared stack. The copy does not recover the author’s source rules, the component definitions, or the original stylesheet. It is a snapshot of what you see, not the code the site wrote.

DevTools or a CSS Viewer

Chrome DevTools is the right tool when you need to change the rules. You edit a stylesheet there, trace the cascade, and find out why one value wins over another.

A CSS viewer answers a smaller question. It is for reading and copying, not for rewriting the site’s rules. You can inspect CSS without DevTools. Point at the element you want and take the values you can use. The table sets the two side by side.

Use DevTools to edit and debug the site’s own rules. Use a CSS viewer to read one element and pass its styles to another tool.

Keyboard Navigation

You can drive the whole flow without touching the pointer. Press Alt+Shift+E to start. The arrow keys move to the previous or next element. Press Ctrl+Up or Ctrl+Down to move to the parent or a child element. On macOS, use Option+Up and Option+Down.

Press Enter to lock the element you are on. Press Enter again to write a note, then Ctrl+Enter (Cmd+Enter on macOS) to Copy reference. Press Esc to go back to picking or close the panel. Press ? any time to open a sheet that lists every shortcut.

Everything Stays on Your Device

SuperchargeInspect runs locally. It makes no network calls and sends nothing anywhere. There is no account and no data collected in the background.

The styles you inspect never leave your device. The only thing that can leave is a file you choose to save, or a value you paste into another app. When you close the browser, the last element it remembers is cleared.

Ready to hand it to a coding tool? Show an AI coding tool exactly which element to change.