jquery xpath selection not working ?

Question

I need a way to select elements via xpath (NOT CSSpath or any other method, must strictly be xpath)

$(document).find("/html[1]/body[1]/div[4]/div[2]/div[1]/h1[1]/a[1]").css("background-color", "yellow")

This doesn't seem to work.

Answer 1

The method find() uses a CSS Selector, not a XPath select.

Answer 2

The support for XPATH selectors was dropped from jQuery. In version 1.2 from what I can gather.

Answer 3

You can use xpath directly in the selector though:

http://dev-tips.com/featured/jquery-tip-using-xpath-selectors