Firebug: Accessing in the console an object you just "looked at" in the DOM Inspector

Question

1. You have a console.log(o) in your code.
2. Now in Firebug you can click on the object in the console, which takes you to the DOM inspector.
3. I thought there was a way to then access from the console command line that object you just inspected with $0, but it doesn't seem to work.

Maybe something changed in Firebug, or I don't remember this correctly. Is there another way to do this in Firebug? If not, do you have workaround to suggest?

Answer 1

From the HTML view or DOM view you can get an XPath for the element inspected. You can then paste the XPath in this code to get it as a var:

var $0 = new XPathEvaluator().evaluate('my-xpath', document, new XPathEvaluator().createNSResolver(document), 0, null).iterateNext();

Answer 2

This works again in Firebug 1.5: you can access the last active element you looked at in the HTML tab from the console with $0. This is extremely convenient.