Cheaty

Extension for the web that feels illegal

Cheaty is a simple open-source web extension that allows you to do quick actions on HTML components without going into the inspector console.

How does it's work?

The basics

Hide/Show a component

The "Hide" button allows you to hide or show the HTML component on the page.

I'm behind
Hide me

Show/Hide password

When selecting an input text you have a new button in the action menu that allows you to hide or show the password.

Copy a component

The "Copy" button allows you to copy the outerHTML of the component.

Copy me

Selection mode

Enter selection mode

To start the process and enter in Selection Mode you have to use the shortcut: Ctrl + Alt + N or click on the icon in the popup header.

Select a component

Once you are in Selection mode, you can pick the HTML component you want by hovering it with your mouse or using the arrow keys. The current component selected will be highlighted with a dotted orange border.

Use the arrow keys

  • ↑ Select the parent component
  • ↓ Select the first child
  • → Select the next sibling
  • ← Select the previous sibling

Tips: You can enable in the extension's options the Inspector Mode to have detail on the selected component.

Hover me

Popup

Open the popup

You can open the extension popup by clicking on in the extension bar of your browser.

Revert your changes

You can find all the components you updated with the extension in the popup. For each one of your changes, you can revert it by clicking on the buttons next to it.

Cheaty

Note that some features might change from the extension. These examples are only here to display the functionalities of Cheaty.

You can try all the different features of the extension in the Playground.

You can also check the full documentation on GitHub .