I forgot to mention, there is a possible workaround,
but works only if you focus the command line in Console panel

<body>
<input type="button" value="show me"
    onclick="alert(_FirebugCommandLine.$0)"/>
<div id="test1">test1</div>
<div id="test2">test2</div>
</body>

Honza


On Sep 8, 6:59 pm, Jan Odvarko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is a bug. Could you please report an issue 
> here:http://code.google.com/p/fbug/issues/list
> and attach the test-case?
> I'll fix it.
>
> Thanks!
> Honza
>
> On Sep 8, 6:10 pm, "Marius Hanganu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Thanks!
>
> > And if I need to use this variable from my own  HTML page, how can I access
> > it?
>
> > Here's the code I'm trying to use in my own HTML page - but it doesn't work:
>
> > <html><body>
> > <input type="button" value="show me" onclick="alert(console.$0)"/>
> > <div id="test1">test1</div>
> > <div id="test2">test2</div>
> > </body></html>
>
> > Thanks again,
> > Marius
>
> > On Mon, Sep 8, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Jan Odvarko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > > > Is it possible to retrieve the selected (inspected) element from
> > > > Firebug? I imagine something like a javascript function that would
> > > > connect to a "stopInspecting" method and get the selected element from
> > > > a global variable.
> > > Yes, use the command line in Console panel and following functions:
> > > $0 - Variable containing the most recently inspected object .
> > > $1 - Variable containing the next most recently inspected object .
> > > $n(5) - Returns the nth most recently inspected object that has been
> > > inspected.
>
> > > > I need to extract further the XPath and send it to a Java engine on
> > > > the server. Which brings my 2nd question: how can I match Firebug's
> > > > (or Firefox') XPath to my own Java based HTML parser? Does anyone know
> > > > if the normalization engine can be called as an external process from
> > > > a Java app?
> > > Would Firequark (Firebug extension) help here?
> > >http://www.quarkruby.com/2007/9/5/firequark-quick-html-screen-scraping
>
> > > Honza
>
>
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