Quick Tip: Editing layout in Firebug
You already know that Firebug is quite possibly a web developer’s best friend. You also know that you can edit pretty much anything with it and see results immediately. We can add one more thing to that list today.
You may not have known that you can also edit the values in the layout pane as well! (You can find it on the right side of the HTML tab) This makes it even easier to adjust the layout of a block and see the results. As a bonus, if you press the up and down arrow keys while editing a value the pixel value will adjust by one pixel in that direction. One note on this though, you can’t specify values in anything other than pixels (sorry fluid layouts).
If you haven’t already, you might want to check out 10 more things you may not know about Firebug.
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