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Console is the first and most important panel of Firebug. Its main function is to display various information generated during the loading process of web pages.

1. Commands to display information

Firebug has a built-in console object that provides 5 methods for displaying information.

The simplest method is console.log(), which can be used to replace alert() or document.write(). For example, if you use console.log("Hello World") in a web script, the console will automatically display the following content when loading.

In addition, according to the different nature of the information, the console object has 4 ways to display information, namely general information console.info(), debugging information console.debug(), Warning prompt console.warn(), error prompt console.error().

For example, insert the following four lines into the web script:

console.info("This is info");

console.debug("This is debug") ;

console.warn("This is a warn");

console.error("This is an error");

When loading, the console will display the following content .

As you can see, there are different icons in front of information of different natures, and there are hyperlinks behind each piece of information. Click to jump to the corresponding line of the web page source code.

2. Placeholders

The above five methods of the console object can all use printf style placeholders. However, there are relatively few types of placeholders, and only four types of placeholders are supported: characters (%s), integers (%d or %i), floating point numbers (%f), and objects (%o).

For example,

console.log("%d year %d month %d day", 2011,3,26);

console.log("Pi is %f",3.1415926);

%o placeholder, which can be used to view the internal conditions of an object. For example, there is such an object:

var dog = {} ;

dog.name = "Big Hair" ;

dog.color = "yellow";

Then, use o% placeholder for it.

console.log("%o",dog);

3. Group display

If there is too much information, you can display it in groups, use The available methods are console.group() and console.groupEnd().

console.group("The first group of information");

console.log("The first message of the first group");

console.log("The first A group of second items");

console.groupEnd();

console.group("Second group of information");

console.log(" The first item in the second group");

console.log("The second item in the second group");

console.groupEnd();

Click the group title and the group information will collapse or expand.

4. console.dir()

console.dir() can display all the properties and methods of an object.

For example, now add a bark() method to the dog object in Section 2.

dog.bark = function(){alert("bark woof");};

Then, display the content of the object,

console.dir(dog) ;

5. console.dirxml()

console.dirxml() is used to display the html/xml code contained in a node of the web page.

For example, first get a table node,

　var table = document.getElementById("table1");

Then, display the code contained in the node.

console.dirxml(table);

6. console.assert()

console.assert() is used to judge an expression or Whether the variable is true. If the result is no, a corresponding message is output to the console and an exception is thrown.

For example, the results of the following two judgments are both no.

var result = 0;

console.assert( result );

var year = 2000;

console.assert(year == 2011 ) ;

7. console.trace()

console.trace() is used to trace the calling trace of the function.

For example, there is an adder function.

Function add(a,b){

Return a b;

}

I want to know how this function is called, add it in The console.trace() method will do the trick.

function add(a,b){

console.trace();

return a b;

}

Assume this The function calling code is as follows:

var x = add3(1,1);

function add3(a,b){return add2(a,b);}

Function add2(a,b){return add1(a,b);}

Function add1(a,b){return add(a,b);}

After running, The call trace of add() will be displayed, which is add(), add1(), add2(), and add3() from top to bottom.

8. Timing function

console.time() and console.timeEnd() are used to display the running time of the code.

console.time("Timer One");

for(var i=0;i

for(var j=0; j

　}

　console.timeEnd("Timer One");

9. Performance Analysis

Performance analysis (Profiler) is to analyze the running time of each part of the program. To find out where the bottleneck is, the method used is console.profile().

Suppose there is a function Foo(), which calls two other functions funcA() and funcB(), of which funcA() is called 10 times and funcB() is called once.

function Foo(){

for(var i=0;i

funcB(10000);

　}

　function funcA(count){

　for(var i=0;i

　}

Function funcB(count){

for(var i=0;i

　}

Then, you can analyze Foo() Running performance.

console.profile('Performance Analyzer One');

Foo();

console.profileEnd();

The console will display A performance analysis table, as shown below.

The title bar indicates that a total of 12 functions were run, taking a total of 2.656 milliseconds. Among them, funcA() runs 10 times, taking 1.391 milliseconds, the shortest running time is 0.123 milliseconds, the longest running time is 0.284 milliseconds, and the average is 0.139 milliseconds; funcB() runs once, taking 1.229ms.

In addition to using the console.profile() method, firebug also provides a "Profiler" button. When you click the button for the first time, "Performance Analysis" starts, and you can perform certain operations on the web page (such as ajax operations). Then when you click the button for the second time, "Performance Analysis" ends, and all operations triggered by this operation will be performed. Performance analysis.

10. Properties Menu

After the name of the console panel, there is an inverted triangle. After clicking, the properties menu will be displayed.

By default, the console only displays Javascript errors. If you select Send Javascript warnings, CSS errors, and XML errors, the relevant prompt information will be displayed.

The more useful thing here is "show XMLHttpRequests", which is to display ajax requests. After selecting, all ajax requests of the web page will be displayed in the console panel.

For example, if we click on a YUI example, the console will tell us that it issued a GET request using ajax. The header information and content body of the http request and response can also be seen.

[Reference]

* Firebug Tutorial - Logging, Profiling and CommandLine (Part I)

* Firebug Tutorial - Logging, Profiling and CommandLine (Part II)

Reprinted from: http://www.cnblogs.com/roverland/p/3168909.html