[removed] Let user select an HTML element like Firebug?

Question

I want to write a browser (Chrome/FF) extension that needs to select an element on a web page. I would like it to behave like Firebug\'s element inspector does. You click

Answer 1

Also check this one out:

http://rockingcode.com/tutorial/element-dom-tree-jquery-plugin-firebug-like-functionality/

I found it pretty insightful.. and there's a demo here:

http://rockingcode.com/demos/elemtree/

Hope this helps.