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Firefox Developer Tools shows helpful information about inactive CSS

Why isn’t this CSS doing anything?

Have you ever set a width in CSS, and… nothing happens?

There are a number of property & value combinations that can lead to CSS being inactive, and now Firefox will tell you why. Open the developer tools, and look for the greyed-out property with an info-box on hover.

Handy new developer tools in Firefox!

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