Get unique selector of element in Jquery

I'll answer this myself, because i found a solution which i had to modify. The following script is working and is based on a script of Blixt:

jQuery.fn.extend({    getPath: function () {        var path, node = this;        while (node.length) {            var realNode = node[0], name = realNode.name;            if (!name) break;            name = name.toLowerCase();            var parent = node.parent();            var sameTagSiblings = parent.children(name);            if (sameTagSiblings.length > 1) {                 var allSiblings = parent.children();                var index = allSiblings.index(realNode) + 1;                if (index > 1) {                    name += ':nth-child(' + index + ')';                }            }            path = name + (path ? '>' + path : '');            node = parent;        }        return path;    }});

Same solution like that one from @Alp but compatible with multiple jQuery elements.

jQuery('.some-selector') can result in one or many DOM elements. @Alp's solution works unfortunately only with the first one. My solution concatenates all them with ,.

If you want just handle the first element do it like this:

jQuery('.some-selector').first().getPath();// orjQuery('.some-selector:first').getPath();

Improved version

jQuery.fn.extend({    getPath: function() {        var pathes = [];        this.each(function(index, element) {            var path, $node = jQuery(element);            while ($node.length) {                var realNode = $node.get(0), name = realNode.localName;                if (!name) { break; }                name = name.toLowerCase();                var parent = $node.parent();                var sameTagSiblings = parent.children(name);                if (sameTagSiblings.length > 1)                {                    var allSiblings = parent.children();                    var index = allSiblings.index(realNode) + 1;                    if (index > 0) {                        name += ':nth-child(' + index + ')';                    }                }                path = name + (path ? ' > ' + path : '');                $node = parent;            }            pathes.push(path);        });        return pathes.join(',');    }});

I think a better solution would be to generate a random id and then access an element based on that id:

Assigning unique id:

// or some other id-generating algorithm$(this).attr('id', new Date().getTime()); 

Selecting based on the unique id:

// getting unique idvar uniqueId = $(this).getUniqueId();// or you could just get the id:var uniqueId = $(this).attr('id');// selecting by id:var element = $('#' + uniqueId);// if you decide to use another attribute other than id:var element = $('[data-unique-id="' + uniqueId + '"]');