How do I get a jQuery selector's expression as text?

Question

I have a jQuery selector, which has a chained function.

Inside the function I want to get access to the TEXT representing the expression for the selector.

Answer 1

well, I'm still trying to figure out if you are trying to get the element name? or the id and/or class or all of it.

You can get element with this

var element =$(this).get(0);
var id = $(this).attr('id');
var class=$(this).attr('class');

not sure what happens if you have more than one class. might go into an array or something, and you could get that with the indexes.