Visual diff

Visual diff allows you to see a visual diff on a documentation page, showing what has changed between the latest version and the active pull request.

Visual diff allows you to quickly review changes visually, and focus your review on what has changed in the current page.

_images/addons-docdiff.gif — Example of Visual diff

Enabling Visual diff

Visual diff is only enabled on pull request builds, and can be toggled on and off with the d hotkey.

Troubleshooting Visual diff

Visual diff only works if there are changes on the page, so ensure you are on a page that has changed in the current pull request.

There are also some known issues that currently don’t display properly:

Tables are shown to have changes when they may not have changed. This is due to do subtly in how HTML tables are rendered, and will be fixed in a future version.