Development background

* { background-color: rgba(255,0,0,.2); } * * { background-color: rgba(0,255,0,.2); } * * * { background-color: rgba(0,0,255,.2); } * * * * { background-color: rgba(255,0,255,.2); } * * * * * { background-color: rgba(0,255,255,.2); } * * * * * * { background-color: rgba(255,255,0,.2); }

This is one of my favorite inventions.

It is meant to be used when you are working with layout, e.g. takehttp://time.com.

The problem is that unless the element on the page has a solid background or it is a picture, you do not see how does it fit into the layout, e.g. most of the text nodes, pictures with transparency, etc.

With the above CSS, you will see something along the lines of:

Different depth of nodes will use different colour allowing you to see the size of each element on the page, their margin and their padding. Now you can easily identify inconsistencies.