How do I get a jQuery selector's expression as text?

Question

I have a jQuery selector, which has a chained function.

Inside the function I want to get access to the TEXT representing the expression for the selector.

$("cat dog").function() {

    // how do I get access to the "cat dog" string from inside THIS function ?
};

I've over simplified in this code sample what I actually want to do. I'm writing a plug-in and I need access to the selector for which the wrapped set has been created. Obviously in this particular example I have access to "cat dog" becasue i wrote it. So just picture this being in a plugin.

Its a little tricky to google for this.

edit: the 'selector' property is unfortunately now deprecated. http://jquery.com/upgrade-guide/1.9/#selector-property-on-jquery-objects

Answer 1

There is a 'selector' attribute in the jQuery object, but I'm not sure it's always available.