Getting Element Path for selector

Question

Running into a spot of trouble and basically trying to create a variable which can be used as a selector. eg

$(\'a\').click(function(){
   var selector = $(t         


        

Answer 1

Modified version of @jcern`s fantastic code.

Features:

• If the element has an id: show only #elementId
• If no id is present: show element.className
• If no class is present: show element with it's innerHtml appended (if any)
• Skip the and elements to shorten output
• Does not rely on jQuery

function dompath(element) {
    var path = '',
    i, innerText, tag, selector, classes;

    for (i = 0; element && element.nodeType == 1; element = element.parentNode, i++) {
        innerText = element.childNodes.length === 0 ? element.innerHTML : '';
        tag = element.tagName.toLowerCase();
        classes = element.className;

        // Skip  and  tags
        if (tag === "html" || tag === "body")
            continue;

        if (element.id !== '') {
            // If element has an ID, use only the ID of the element
            selector = '#' + element.id;

            // To use this with jQuery, return a path once we have an ID
            // as it's no need to look for more parents afterwards.
            //return selector + ' ' + path;
        } else if (classes.length > 0) {
            // If element has classes, use the element tag with the class names appended
            selector = tag + '.' + classes.replace(/ /g , ".");
        } else {
            // If element has neither, print tag with containing text appended (if any)
            selector = tag + ((innerText.length > 0) ? ":contains('" + innerText + "')" : "");
        }

        path = ' ' + selector + path;
    }
    return path;
}