jQuery Expression Reference

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Does anyone know if there is a way to get the expression that returned an object in jQuery from within it’s handler?

Example:

$('body > a').click(function() {
   // Is there any way I can alert 'body > a' in here?
   // Perhaps something like: alert($(this).expression); ?
});

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2 Responses to “jQuery Expression Reference”

  1. Damien • November 27th, 2008 at 2:24 pm

    I don’t remember any method for it, and looking at the source, I don’t think it save it somewhere.

    http://jqueryjs.googlecode.com/svn/tags/1.2.6/src/core.js

  2. Mark O’Sullivan - Blog » Blog Archive » jQuery 1.3 • January 16th, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    [...] a few weeks ago I was looking for a way of accessing the selector from within the method, and now you can do it. [...]

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