Oooh..that's a much harder problem than the one originally presented.
jQuery supports the :nth-child() selector; you want a string that
uniquely selects 'this' . The following ought to work:
(function ($){
function toString(el){
console.log (el);
var ret = el.tagName.toLowerCase();
if (el.id) ret += '#'+el.id;
if (el.classname) ret += '.'+el.className.replace(/\s/g,'.');
if ($(el).siblings(el.tagName).length) ret += ':nth-child(' + ($
(el).prev().length+1) + ')';
return ret;
}
$.fn.getPath = function(){
return $.map (this, function(a){
return $.map ($(a).add($(a).parents()),
toString).reverse().join(' > ');
}).join(',');
}
})(jQuery);
(It adds the ability to pass in more than one element; the paths will
be separated by commas)
On Apr 27, 2:20 pm, Ariel Jakobovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> thats cool. But what if an element has no id or is not the only sibliing with
> that class? you need to add its position within the parent in that case,
> which is actually more useful.
>
> but, this is only only worth it if jQuery supports td:1 vs td:first which I'm
> not sure it does.
