[jQuery] Re: Howto detect DOM element from selected text

[Charlie]

not sure you've explained what it is you are trying to do are you trying to work with "John" and create a selector/method to do it? Alexander wrote: Hi there ! I'm stuck with a problem and hope someone can give me the right hint. I am trying to detect the DOM element on a unkown web page from the current selected text on that page. Which means: I select text on a web page and then I would like to get the dom element to which this text belongs. What I came up with was something like that: (imagin we selected the word John on that page....) var array = $("*:contains('John')"); ---> get all dom elements that contain the text 'John' But, instead of returning all dom elements that contain 'John' , it returns only the path from the HTML element to the P element that contains the text 'John'. (HTML->Body->P) Did I miss something ? Is there a complete different way to accomplish what I want ? Thanks and good bye, Alexander