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How do you prevent firefox from truncating strings printed via console.log?

rjo3
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All strings printed to the console get truncated. I would like to see the full string or at least copy it to my clipboard.

All strings printed to the console get truncated. I would like to see the full string or at least copy it to my clipboard.

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cor-el
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Did you try to click the string to see if that expands it to show the full text?

rjo3
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No, nothing happens when I do that.

Using Firefox 57.

jscher2000 - Support Volunteer
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At what lengths are the strings truncated?

If I open Firefox's web console and execute:

console.log(document.body.outerHTML);

There is a continuation widget [...] and when I click that I see the entire rest of the body of this page there. That's substantially more text than I usually would log...