Question: It may be a setting of some kind in the Chrome dev tools that I am missing. My goal is to pause a slideshow on my web site so that i can use the inspect element tool to target a html element and figure out the css that it uses? Clearly this is impossible to achieve while the animation is set to automatically run.

Is there a way of pausing the animation while I inspect the element for it's css properties?

Answer: 
If you go to the "Sources" tab in web inspector there's a pause button in the debug controls.

![enter image description here](https://i.stack.imgur.com/OcJAN.png)

Unfortunately, you won't be able to right-click an element to inspect it when paused, but you can locate it using the magnifier icon or on the Elements tab by expanding and hovering over elements and observing the highlight in the main document.
You can `Disable Javascript` by clicking `Three dots` on top right then go to `Setting`