Today I learned that there is a very handy shortcut for interacting with the currently selected DOM element in your browser’s console:

1. Open dev tools in Chrome or Firefox
2. Select an element / a node in the “inspect” tab
3. You can now reference the selected element with $0 in the “console” tab and start interacting with it.

By the way: you don’t need to have the element currently selected anymore, since $0 means “the most recently selected node”. Also there is $1 to $4 for the last-selected to fourth-ago-selected node, as described in the Google Chrome Console Utilities API reference (might vary with other browsers).