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In the old version of Chrome (not sure which version, I know it was quite some time ago), I could type the following into a console using the Chrome Developer Tools, and it would give me all associated properties of the newly created object:

document.createElement('a');

Now, when I do the same, I'm given very little back, and I can barely do anything with the returned item in the console, whereas I would just like to inspect it.

chrome-dev-tools

How do I view all the properties of this element, etc. as with the old version of Chrome - so I can inspect all properties and their values?

Many thanks.

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var a = document.createElement('a');
console.dir(a)
yuvi
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  • Thanks! Is there a reason they took this behaviour out by default? – keldar May 22 '14 at 15:40
  • I don't think there's a changelog for the chrome devtools to look at, but I think it makes more sense - think about it, how would you "print" out the result of something by default? with `console.log` or `console.dir`? – yuvi May 22 '14 at 15:46