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Tape

by Richard Tucker

v2.2 Updated May 22, 2024 12.68KiB
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20K
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★ 4.62
156 reviews
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⚠️Not updated in over a year Highly rated

Description

Tape is a tool for pixel-perfect website development. It lets you put down guides that snap intelligently to the page content (and stick to it if it moves on scroll or resize), and helps you easily measure positions and sizes of elements. It knows about borders and padding, and will even snap to the baseline of text. There is on-screen help, the ability to display user-defined column and row grids, a built-in magnifying glass for pixel-perfect measurement, and all guides can be quickly toggled on and off with a single keystroke. Unlike some extensions it will not interfere with any webpage you visit unless you click the Tape icon. Once installed: Click icon to activate. Read help, or press Space to dismiss it. Mouse over document, observe that rules snap to useful positions (including baselines!), and use keys as follows: H – drop Horizontal rule here (or remove if there's one here already) V – drop Vertical rule here (or remove if there's one here already) B - drop Both horizontal and vertical rules here arrow keys – fine adjustment (+shift, +alt for larger adjustment) S – toggle snapping on and off. P – toggle pointer events on and off O – set origin to current position. C / R – set column or row grid L or backquote – toggle loupe. (To refresh loupe image, press L twice.) Space – toggle help Press ESC to toggle everything on and off. Press X to reset all guides on a page.
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Reviews (10 cached)

★☆☆☆☆2022-08-31
irina p

broken? i click on it and nothing happens.

★☆☆☆☆2019-09-27
Dale Sheeley

DOES NOT WORK

★☆☆☆☆2013-06-30
Kenan AĞKURT

not useful, very difficult to use on web page and also it's not working offline local page

★☆☆☆☆2012-10-10
Umar Draz

plugin is not working, i have clicked many times, it did nothing

★☆☆☆☆2012-05-28
Geoffrey Odhner

Doesn't work for me at all. Is this written to be platform-dependent? The write-up doesn't say anything to indicate this, but it doesn't work on my Macintosh.

★☆☆☆☆2012-01-05
Sean Thayer

I don't get it. Doesn't work at all. Don't know what else to say, just doesn't do a thing.

★★☆☆☆2013-06-15
David Rosenblatt

Unfortunately I'm in that small group of people who find themselves clicking on the Tape icon and getting zero response. When it last worked (a couple of months ago) it was really nice. Wish the developer would investigate and find out what might be interfering with it.

★★★☆☆2026-03-03
Eric Mao

automatically calculates measurement between two lines, which is great. But has some trouble on some websites, such as iCloud mail. Becomes super laggy and unresponsive.

★★★☆☆2019-03-20
Nikola Jovanovic

I get the impression that it is not working properly when you use dev tools, turn on devices view, and set the zoom to, for example, 50%.

★★★☆☆2013-10-14
Влад

Does not work with local files

Permissions (2)

Permissions

activeTab Can access the current tab when you click the extension scripting Can inject scripts into web pages

Details

Version 2.2
Updated May 22, 2024
Size 12.68KiB
First Seen Mar 21, 2026