A simple helper that returns a list of elements at a given point using elementFromPoint

KoreSampl.js

/**
* @author Kerry Liu
* WTFPL
**/
;(function(){
    //test for ie: turn on conditional comments
    var jscript/*@cc_on=@_jscript_version@*/;
    var styleProp = (jscript) ? "display" : "pointerEvents";

    var KoreSampl = function() {};
    KoreSampl.prototype.fromEvent = function(e, lastElement) {
        e = e || window.event; //IE for window.event
        return this.atPoint(e.clientX, e.clientY, lastElement);
    };
    KoreSampl.prototype.atPoint = function(clientX, clientY, lastElement) {
        //support for child iframes
        var d = (lastElement) ? lastElement.ownerDocument : document;
        //the last element in the list
        lastElement = lastElement || d.getElementsByTagName("html")[0];

        var element = d.elementFromPoint(clientX, clientY);
        if(element === lastElement || element.nodeName === "HTML") {
            return [element];
        } else {
            var style= element.style[styleProp];
            element.style[styleProp]="none"; //let us peak at the next layer
            var result = [element].concat(this.atPoint(clientX,clientY,lastElement));
            element.style[styleProp]= style; //restore
            return result;
        }
    };
    window["KoreSampl"] = new KoreSampl();
})(); 

Modern Sample usage:

To use, copy/paste the script into the dev console.

Then add an event listener.

Everything up to root html node:

 document.addEventListener("click", function(event) { console.log(KoreSampl.fromEvent(event)) } )

Or from a specific CSS selector:

document.querySelector( 'myElementSelector' ).addEventListener("click", function(event) { console.log(KoreSampl.fromEvent(event)) } )