Problems Debugging Mobile Safari via the desktop Web Inspector

Question

I'm trying to debug a problem with mobile Safari.

I'm using the desktop Web Inspector and a connected iPhone, and it basically doesn't work in any useful way.

• DOM elements don't expand. I click on <div id="content">...</div> which contains 50 other DIVs and nothing happens except that the close-div disappears.
• No CSS shows in the right-hand panel for any selected element
• Images can't be loaded (I just get a spinner)

Are there known problems or incompatibilities? I'm using

• Desktop Safari 6.0.5
• iOS 7.0.4

Answer 1

I had this problem, too - you'll need to update to Safari 6.1.