Ok, this seems simple but I've been scratching my head over this.
When I go to "inspect elements", and I see this (for example):
<div class="topbar">
I can use search to find "topbar", but not the whole thing (with the ">"). Is there some simple way to search for all text, including the html part, using google chrome's devtools?
A quick way to try and work around this is to use the selector, in this case .topbar when searching. It appears that currently the string selection only searches content text, not the DOM structure.
If you want to see if the search can get updated we always welcome new bug reports. The DevTools group doesn't mind feature requests through this system. Please have "DevTools" in the title so it is easy for any triager to know where to send it.