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Get the CSS selector path for a Node (eg: div.className span#id div[data-attribute="value"]). Includes two separate functions, one which converts a Node to a selector, the other which generates a path)
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| function getNodePath (node) { | |
| var path = []; | |
| while (node) { | |
| path.unshift(toSelector(node)); | |
| if (node === document.body || node.id.length > 0) { | |
| return path.join(' '); | |
| } | |
| node = node.parentNode; | |
| } | |
| return path.join(' '); | |
| } |
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| function toSelector (node) { | |
| var tagName = node.tagName.toLowerCase(), | |
| attr = node.attributes, | |
| hasId = node.id.length, | |
| hasClass = node.className.length, | |
| siblings = [].slice.call(node.parentNode.childNodes), | |
| selector = [], | |
| i; | |
| for (i = siblings.length - 1; i >= 0; i--) { | |
| // Ensure that only element nodes are in the 'siblings' array | |
| if (siblings[i].nodeType !== 1) { | |
| siblings.splice(i, 1); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| // If a tag contains this character, it would be an invalid selector | |
| if (!/:/.test(tagName)) { | |
| selector.push(tagName); | |
| } | |
| if (hasId) { | |
| selector.push('#' + node.id) | |
| } | |
| if (hasClass) { | |
| selector.push('.' + node.className.trim().split(' ').join('.')); | |
| } else if (!hasId) { | |
| // Does not have a class or an ID : create attribute selector | |
| for (i = 0, n = attr.length; i < n; i++) { | |
| selector.push('[' + attr[i].name +'="' + attr[i].nodeValue + '"]'); | |
| } | |
| } | |
| if (siblings.length > 1) { | |
| selector.push(':nth-child(' + (siblings.indexOf(node) + 1) + ')'); | |
| } | |
| return selector.join(''); | |
| } |
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