jQuery .selector property removed, workaround?

Question

I'm trying to get the selector used to call the current script, but of course the property I need was removed for some reason.

Is there a workaround for this? Here's basically what I want to accomplish:

(function($) {
    $.fn.myplugin = function(options) {
        return this.each(function() {
            console.log($(this).selector);
        });
    }
}(jQuery));

//Somwehere else:

$('.theClassISelected').myplugin();  //Should console.log('.theClassISelected')

I need to see .theClassISelected (or some form of the original selector I used to call the function) in the console, but since the selector property has been removed from jQuery, it doesn't possible anymore.

I don't understand why it was removed - I've Googled this problem for a while now and all I see are StackOverflow answers from 2011-2012 recommending the selector property. I guess it was useful at some point, but not anymore?

Kandis

I'm not even sure where it would be, but you can search through the jQuery 1.8 source tree for it: github.com/jquery/jquery/tree/1.8-stable – Valvular

There was a discussion before. See if it helps.. [Alternative to .selector property now that it is removed in jQuery 1.9][1] [1]: #14965260 – Outcrop

#500746 – Midst

Just out of curiosity, why do you need the selector? – Valvular

You can trace the history of this property's deprecation in this issue. – Interflow

Answer 1

From the jQuery documentation:

Plugins that need to use a selector should have the caller pass in the selector as part of the plugin's arguments during initialization.

http://api.jquery.com/selector/

As an aside, the docs also mention that the selector property wasn't reliable since "since subsequent traversal methods may have changed the set."

Volkan

Yeah, but $('.theClassISelected').myplugin($('.theClassIsSelected')); looks even worse to me. – Kandis

@Jaxo agreed... it's ugly, I don't see another way to get access to the selector though :/ – Volkan

@roasted and cfs I didn't downvote, no idea where it came from. StackOverflow said "one new answer to this post", and I clicked it to find the post insta-downvoted. Counter-upvoted! – Kandis

@Jaxo Pass a string instead of a jQuery object. – Apartment

@Jaxo i didn't say you downvoted this answer, i was speaking to the anonymous downvoter ;) – Shaveling