IE11 Developer Tools' "Find" field greyed out

Question

I'm in IE11 Developer Tools and I do a Ctrl+F. Once I hit the last search result, the "Find" window grays out and I am unable to ever use search again.

Tried hitting ESC, pressing Ctrl+F again, but nothing allows me to regain control of the "Find" box until I restart the browser. Ideas?

Answer 1

I have the same problem just above every time I use F12 on my application. It's very annoying.

My lame work-around is to first find the code in my local source (i use eclipse) then, back in F12, I use the suitcase icon to find my file. Then I use 'ctrl-g' to go to the line.

F12 has been this way for me for since the beginning of IE11 ... I'm rather surprised such a basic feature can be broken for so long.

Answer 2

Unfortunately search operations isn't something that can be cancelled. When this happens you're stuck :(. We're going to be working on correcting this for a future update to F12.

Out of curiosity do you have a page you can share that we can reproduce the issue on? Thanks!