Purpose:

I was working on a project where all I know was the element in which a certain text/selection lives in, but need to know the full selector between the known element and the closest element with an ID. I found a code snippet written by Andreas Blixt (http://github.com/blixt) and, with his permission, improved it.

Usage:

$(selector).getPathPlus(separator);

Sample HTML Code:

    <div id="main">
        <span>
            <p class="word">Word</p>
        </span>
    </div>

$('.word').getPathPlus();
>> "#main span p.word"

$('.word').getPathPlus(' > ');
>> "#main > span > p.word"