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: 
Just click on the setting icon and check the "disable javascript" checkbox, it's under the Debugger.
[![](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LtuHQ.jpg)](https://i.stack.imgur.com/LtuHQ.jpg)

Found the solution at this link:

<https://stellarwebstudios.com/2012/11/stop-javascript-jquery-from-running-while-using-element-inspector/>
You can `Disable Javascript` by clicking `Three dots` on top right then go to `Setting`