Yeah, if this is contained within a plugin, then binding to a DOM
element is ok. Just make sure that you clean up after yourself,
otherwise there could be memory leaks.

--John

On 2/9/07, Jonathan Sharp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What are people's thoughts about storing "state" by using ELEMENT.$flag as
> opposed to a CSS class such as "my_class_flag"?
>
> I always lean towards being a "DOM purest" but I think performance wise
> adding a boolean attribute to a DOM element is less expensive/cleaner than
> adding/remove/testing for a CSS class. (This attribute is only utilized from
> within the plugin I'm writing)
>
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