Get the DOM path of the clicked

Question

HTML

Answer 1

Here is a solution for exact matching of an element.

It is important to understand that the selector (it is not a real one) that the chrome tools show do not uniquely identify an element in the DOM. (for example it will not distinguish between a list of consecutive span elements. there is no positioning/indexing info)

An adaptation from a similar (about xpath) answer

$.fn.fullSelector = function () {
    var path = this.parents().addBack();
    var quickCss = path.get().map(function (item) {
        var self = $(item),
            id = item.id ? '#' + item.id : '',
            clss = item.classList.length ? item.classList.toString().split(' ').map(function (c) {
                return '.' + c;
            }).join('') : '',
            name = item.nodeName.toLowerCase(),
            index = self.siblings(name).length ? ':nth-child(' + (self.index() + 1) + ')' : '';

        if (name === 'html' || name === 'body') {
            return name;
        }
        return name + index + id + clss;

    }).join(' > ');

    return quickCss;
};

And you can use it like this

console.log( $('some-selector').fullSelector() );

Demo at http://jsfiddle.net/gaby/zhnr198y/