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December 14, 2012 19:20
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Geting XPath of selected DOM element and highlighting it
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function getPathTo(element) { | |
if (element.id!=='') | |
return 'id("'+element.id+'")'; | |
if (element===document.body) | |
return element.tagName; | |
var ix= 0; | |
var siblings= element.parentNode.childNodes; | |
for (var i= 0; i<siblings.length; i++) { | |
var sibling= siblings[i]; | |
if (sibling===element) | |
return getPathTo(element.parentNode)+'/'+element.tagName+'['+(ix+1)+']'; | |
if (sibling.nodeType===1 && sibling.tagName===element.tagName) | |
ix++; | |
} | |
} | |
function getBody(element) { | |
if(element.tagName == 'DIV') | |
return element; | |
if (element===document.body) | |
return element; | |
return getBody(element.parentNode); | |
} | |
function selectTargetToParse(e) { | |
if (!e) var e = window.event; | |
var tg = (window.event) ? e.srcElement : e.target; | |
alert(tg.tagName); | |
document.body.onmousedown = null; | |
document.body.onmouseover = null; | |
document.body.onmouseout = null; | |
tg.className = tg.className.replace( /(?:^|\s)bot-parser-selected(?!\S)/g , '' ); | |
} | |
function lightTargetToParse(e) { | |
if (!e) var e = window.event; | |
var tg = (window.event) ? e.srcElement : e.target; | |
tg.className += ' bot-parser-selected '; | |
} | |
function unlightTargetToParse(e) { | |
if (!e) var e = window.event; | |
var tg = (window.event) ? e.srcElement : e.target; | |
tg.className = tg.className.replace( /(?:^|\s)bot-parser-selected(?!\S)/g , '' ); | |
} | |
var style = document.createElement('style'); | |
style.type = 'text/css' | |
style.innerHTML = '.bot-parser-selected {position:relative;} .bot-parser-selected:after {content: "";position: absolute;top: 0;right: 0;background: #245991;opacity: 0.5;width:100%;height:100%;}'; | |
document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(style) | |
document.body.onmousedown = selectTargetToParse; | |
document.body.onmouseover = lightTargetToParse; | |
document.body.onmouseout = unlightTargetToParse; |
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