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Is there any way to get the selector for a jquery object

e.g in firefox I see a jquery object as [p.basket]

but there seems to be no way in jquery that I can get this selector?

Is there any way?

Phil

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If a jQuery object was created with a selector string, then you can just look at its "selector" property. However, not all jQuery objects are so constructed. Thus you should make sure to check for null.

edit — if your jQuery object was not constructed with a selector, then there simply is not a selector available. The library does not have any built-in way of creating a selector that matches the set of elements it contains. You could do that yourself, though it's not clear why it would be useful; once you have a reference to the DOM elements (which you do if the jQuery object isn't empty), isn't that more useful?

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"not all jQuery objects are so constructed", can you elaborate that? Sounds very interesting, I do not know what queries do have this behaviour or not.
@Caspar Kleijne well for example if you already have a reference to a DOM element, and you pass it to jQuery(), then you get a jQuery object wrapped around that element, and there is no selector.
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Is the selector property what you want?

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nope, i found the selector property and that doesn't work as it was not constructed that way

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