Benefits of Console Tool
The tool allows you to check for various logs of the webpage and also allows you to manipulate the webpage. Some of the benefits of the tool are:
- Easy distinction: With the color coded logs the and the sidebar providing categories its very easy to differential the various logs and focus only the type you want to work on. If you want to work on error logs just filter the error logs or use the sidebar and select the errors category.
- Finding problems: The tool helps us to view the different warnings and errors in the webpage. This helps during development as it clearly explain the problems and provide links to open files in sources tab.
- DOM manipulation and inspection: You can manipulate the DOM of the web page or preview various DOM elements and there values. The tool come with JS support so plain JS methods and properties can be used for DOM manipulation.
Console Tool in Microsoft Edge Browser
The Console tool is used to check JS errors and warnings but it can also be used to manipulate the JS of the webpage. The tool can also be used alongside with other DevTools as by default it is present in the drawer of the DevTools.