I'm using the script found here to get some text that defines the path to an HTML element. The results look something like this:
html>body>section:eq(3)>ul>li:eq(1)>div
How do I go about using either JavaScript or jQuery to select the element using these results?
Assuming that you save that string is stored in the variable "path", with jQuery you can do
var node = $(path);
and retrieve the exact element(s). The last "div" may have siblings of the same tag type and can retrieve an array instead of an element.
As for a JS implementation, it's a little bit hard. You'd have to reimplement sizzle or you can include it in your project and call:
var node = Sizzle(path);
jQuery node selection is based on it (when using complex selectors. it's a little bit smart and uses pure JS when detects ids, classes or plain tags).
