How To Select An Iframe From the Developer Console So You Can Tweak Variables Or Modify Url Etc...

selecting_iframes_developer_console.md

The developer console in most modern browsers can be quite powerful for modifying websites live. This includes modifying HTML, CSS and even Javascript.

To do this, one can:

1. Right-Click the iframe and select Inspect. OR CTRL + Shift + i (in Chrome).
2. Select Console tab.
3. Click the downward arrow to select the JavaScript console for the iframes windows.
4. All JavaScript variables are now accessible from the javascript console. You can tweak these values to modify all things about the Windows from variables to the iframe windows current URL/URL parameters (window.location.href).

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This is only a made up example and wont work in any real-game. But for example, if I have a myplayer object with an attribute called throwDelay, I could tweak that by doing myplayer.throwDelay = 0

Here is an example of accessing such an example variable from the JS console:

You can also access the windows URL in the javascript console using window.location.href. You can also set or modify it via that variable.