It seems like something has changed lately with Chrome Dev Tools. Logging a jQuery object with console.log used to show the Element of the DOM node in the conso
console.log
Does this answer your question console.dir( element ) ..?
console.dir( element )
Update: Dont do this
console.dir( $("el") ); // Dont do this
But use:
console.dir( document.getElementById("el") ); // Do this