Not sure if I answer your question completly, but doing that test on each elements tagName should do it
Tzury skrev: > Say a user called $('div.foo') I would like to get this 'div.foo' from > within my plug-in context. > > I look through the code and couldn't find a property which contain > this data; > > I was thinking that 'query' is the appropriate name for this property > > example usage: > > $.fn.MyPlugIn = function (){ > if (/table|thead|tbody|th|tr|td/.test($.query){ > // do the table thing > } > else { > // do the chair thing ;-) > } > } > > $('table').MyPlugIn(); > $('div').MyPlugIn