get-element-selectors

Returns an array of CSS selector strings for a given DOM element.

Usage

getElementSelectors(element, option)

Example

import { getElementSelectors } from 'get-element-selectors';

const option =  { attributes: ['name', 'type', 'data-foo'], maxResults: 10 }

const ele = document.querySelectorAll("div")[3];

const selectors = getElementSelectors(element, option);

console.log(selectors); // Output: ['.target', ...]

Parameters

element

This is the HTML Element.

option

Option is an Object with the following fields:

1. attributes : This is an array containing attribute names can be used as selectors. Default is ['type', 'name'] .
2. maxResults : This sets the maximum number of selector strings will return

Types

export type GetElementSelectorsOption = {
  attributes: string[];
  maxResults: number;
};

export const getElementSelectors = (
  element: Element,
  option: GetElementSelectorsOption = { attributes: ['type', 'name'], maxResults: 10 },
): string[]  

Notes

1. If an element has an ID attribute, the id selector will be the only selector in the returned array.
2. Only valid class names will be used in CSS selectors.