I like this idea too How about prefix the data name with "data:" or something so that jquery knows only to check the data if the prefix is there, so you don't slow other selections down and allow for data names that are standard html attributes
Ant -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Danny Sent: 02 November 2008 05:28 To: jQuery Development Subject: [jquery-dev] jQuery's Data functions I was recently having a discussion with a fellow developer who was writing code that set custom html attributes to various nodes to save information that'd be required later when working with them. I asked him why he wasn't using jquery's built-in support, Data for storing that information in the nodes. He responded saying, he woulnd't be able to use jquery's selectors to query against the dom. $("div[custId=5]") //etc. That made me wonder, why isn't there some sort of support for querying the values in the jquery.data from within a selector. I'm aware I could write a whole .filter(...) function but thats extrodinarily wordy and defeat the purpose. I was wondering what others thought of this, and how useful the data functionality is to them in this regard. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "jQuery Development" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/jquery-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
