WTH does the filter line in Developer Tools look like the rest of the table

[blunova (Ariana)]

This is a simple GUI thing, and maybe it’s just me… but I go into Developer Tools > States fairly often to look at the current states of my entities. When I go there and want to search for an entity, I always end up clicking the “Set state” dropdown to type in my entity name. My brain just automatically thinks that is a search bar.

But it’s not. The search/filter bar is below it, which looks JUST LIKE the rest of the results in the table. Can we color that filter bar a different color, so it differentiates itself from the results below?

[haydnw (Haydn Williams)]

I’m so glad I’m not the only one! It gets me every single time (that’s not an exaggeration) and I find it infuriating that I (1) can’t remember, and (2) even have to remember.

[petro]

Yes, many people miss understand that it’s a field you can type in.

Happens so often that I made a sticky post about it in Configuration

PSA: You can find any entity in developer tools, states page

I’m creating this post to raise awareness for newcomers because it seems that many people have issues finding entities on their system. If you are not finding an entity in the entity list in your devices or integration, chances are you can find it in the developer tools → states page. In fact, most YAML configured entities will show up here, but will not show up in an integration page. [Open your Home Assistant instance and show your state developer tools.] On this page, you can filter your …

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

Although the field has a “loupe” which could be interpreted as “search field”:

[blunova (Ariana)]

Yes! That magnifying glass makes me think it’s a search field instead of a filter.

[Ildar_Gabdullin]

@blunova

search field instead of a filter.

???