DOM Extractor

About

DOM Extractor makes debugging and redesigning web elements dramatically easier by letting you select any element or region on a page and instantly copy its complete DOM structure and CSS styles in a format ready to share with AI assistants like Claude, ChatGPT, or Gemini.

The extension captures not just the element you click, but intelligently includes its ancestor DOM elements to preserve the full context that affects rendering. This means when you're troubleshooting why a button won't center or a dropdown menu breaks on mobile, you're sharing the complete picture rather than an isolated fragment that lacks critical inherited styles or positioning context.

You get automatic extraction of computed styles as they actually appear in the browser, not just the CSS rules written in your stylesheet. This distinction matters because cascade, inheritance, and browser defaults all influence final rendering. The extension also offers customization options to control extraction depth and which properties to include, so you can keep the output focused rather than drowning your AI assistant in thousands of lines of auto-generated framework styles.

Install DOM Extractor if you regularly ask AI for help fixing layouts, understanding why styles aren't applying, recreating components from existing sites, or explaining complex DOM structures. Instead of manually inspecting elements, copying CSS rules one property at a time, and typing out HTML structure, you get everything in one click. This transforms a tedious five-minute process into something instantaneous, and the structured output makes it trivially easy for AI models to understand exactly what you're working with and provide actionable solutions.