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stevoland/getCSSSelector.js

Created September 13, 2012 11:11
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  1. stevoland created this gist Sep 13, 2012.
    18 changes: 18 additions & 0 deletions getCSSSelector.js
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    function getCSSSelector(el) {
    var names = [];
    while (el.parentNode) {
    if (el.id) {
    names.unshift('#' + el.id);
    break;
    } else {
    if (el == el.ownerDocument.documentElement) {
    names.unshift(el.tagName);
    } else {
    for (var c=1, e=el; e.previousElementSibling; e=e.previousElementSibling, c++);
    names.unshift(el.tagName + ':nth-child(' + c + ')');
    }
    el = el.parentNode;
    }
    }
    return names.join(' > ');
    }