[Feature request] Highlight the hovered border

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[Feature request] Highlight the hovered border

sabi0 opened this issue 7 years ago · 5 comments

Highlighting a JSON element "indentation guide" on hover would help to trace to where it begins.
This is particularly useful for long elements. Especially the ones that span multiple pages.

Here is a mockup of what I mean:

It would be also nice to be able to click the "indentation guide" to collapse the element.

Answer 1 · 2017-12-18T04:45:22.000Z

Looks Good. Will support next version.

Answer 2 · 2017-12-18T05:27:21.000Z

Now, you can highlight the block on v3.6.

First, you should enble this feature in about:addons page.

Then click on the block which you need to highlight. It looks like:

Answer 3 · 2017-12-18T08:45:28.000Z

This is cool! Thank you.
But please allow a few pixels "tolerance" if possible.
Currently clicking when mouse pointer is like this toggles the "wrong" line:

Answer 4 · 2017-12-19T09:37:19.000Z

Now, it has more space in the area in v3.7.

Answer 5 · 2017-12-19T13:37:52.000Z

I've updated the add-on to version 3.7.
Distance between the "indentation guides" has increased indeed. But when I click a few pixels to the left of some "guide" another "guide" is highlighted. Just like shown on the screenshot in my previous comment.