It's too easy to add a filter, forget about it, and not realize that items are being hidden. Potential UX approaches: - red/colored highlight on the console filter input field - levels dropdown could change background to red/colored when not default
Independent report of a user going through this same issue: https://twitter.com/joaocunha/status/964625099851739137
The following revision refers to this bug: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git/+/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8 commit 3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8 Author: Erik Luo <luoe@chromium.org> Date: Mon Jul 02 19:32:06 2018 DevTools: give visual signal when filters are active - Non-empty text filters retain their blue outline even when not focused. - Searching the the StylesSidebarPane no longer highlights the toolbar yellow, just the selector/prop matches. Screenshots: https://imgur.com/a/suybNVy https://imgur.com/a/s0R04ar Bug: 808159 Change-Id: I7dc5b89ca96ca181e767bd271cd648bee4cb0ca1 Reviewed-on: https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/1060574 Reviewed-by: Andrey Lushnikov <lushnikov@chromium.org> Commit-Queue: Erik Luo <luoe@chromium.org> Cr-Commit-Position: refs/heads/master@{#571967} [modify] https://crrev.com/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8/third_party/blink/renderer/devtools/front_end/elements/ComputedStyleWidget.js [modify] https://crrev.com/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8/third_party/blink/renderer/devtools/front_end/elements/StylesSidebarPane.js [modify] https://crrev.com/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8/third_party/blink/renderer/devtools/front_end/elements/computedStyleSidebarPane.css [modify] https://crrev.com/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8/third_party/blink/renderer/devtools/front_end/elements/stylesSidebarPane.css [modify] https://crrev.com/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8/third_party/blink/renderer/devtools/front_end/ui/filter.css [modify] https://crrev.com/3078ce545f4c4ea7b39d3b3466f12ea330c6e6d8/third_party/blink/renderer/devtools/front_end/ui/toolbar.css
Comment 1 by kaycebas...@gmail.com
, Feb 16 2018