Changes: Track your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript changes

Sofia Emelianova
Sofia Emelianova

Use the Changes panel to track code changes made within DevTools.

Overview

With the Changes panel, track the changes you make to:

The Changes panel shows only the changes you make within DevTools. If you reload either DevTools or your page, the changes disappear.

To make DevTools persist changes across page loads, follow the steps in Local overrides.

To make DevTools write changes to your local sources, follow the steps in Edit and save files with Workspaces.

Open the Changes panel

To open the Changes panel:

  1. Open DevTools.

  2. Press Command+Shift+P (Mac) or Control+Shift+P (Windows, Linux, ChromeOS) to open the Command Menu.

  3. Start typing changes, select Show Changes, and press Enter.

    Run the Show Changes command

Alternatively, in the upper right corner, click Customize and control DevTools > More tools > Changes.

Changes option focused in More tools dropdown

By default, DevTools displays the Changes panel at the bottom of your DevTools window, in the Drawer.

View and understand your changes

To view your changes:

  1. Open DevTools.
  2. Make changes to your sources:

  3. Open the Changes panel and select a file in the right-hand side of the panel.

  4. Observe a diff output that highlights the following:

Highlighted diff in the Changes panel

The Changes panel pretty-prints the diff output automatically, so you don't have to scroll horizontally to see the changes in a single line.

Copy CSS changes

If you made changes to CSS in Elements > Styles, you can copy all of them with a single button:

  1. Open the Changes panel and, in the right-hand side of the panel, select the CSS file you made changes to.

    Copy.

  2. Click the Copy. Copy button at the bottom of the Changes panel.

Revert all changes made to a file

To revert changes made to a file:

  1. On left-hand side of the Changes panel, select a file with changes to revert.
  2. On the action bar at the bottom, click Undo Revert all changes to current file.

Revert button