jQuery selector help - Can I generate a selector from clicking on an element?

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Published on 2009-12-10T23:30:08Z Indexed on 2010/03/15 17:39 UTC
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Hi All, I have jQuery, FireFox, Firebug, IE, and IE developer toolbar. When I am examing a page with either FireBug or IE Dev toolbar, I am able to click on an element and it shows me in the dom where the element is etc... Is there anyway to transform that selection into a valid jQuery selector? I know I can use ID, classes, and element relative to other elements etc... but what about when I am looking at some random table cell that doesn't have a class or id etc.. Can I generate a selector on the fly like that? I thought for sure there was. Any thoughts or ideas are always appreciated

Thanks, ~ck in San Diego

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