Right Ariel, I sort of stopped reading after $('*:data(foo)').
You're right that it makes sense to aim this at Sizzle directly. I
think it will be quite interesting for other libraries as well to see
how extensible it is.
Jörn
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 10:13 PM, Ariel Flesler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Seems fine to me. The ideal place for it would be inside $.expr[':']
> but I'm not sure it fits.
>
> $('*:data(foo)')
>
> No place for the value. The other option (requires modifying/
> overloading the core) would be:
>
> $('*[:foo=bar]')
>
> Where those ':' are some random character that identifies this. As a
> generic solution, I think we could add another $.expr for characters
> on this place.
> So.. one could do (f.e)
>
> $('*[~padding=0px]')
>
> As a random way of selecting by style properties. Hopefully Sizzle
> will allow this easily.
>
> --
> Ariel Flesler
> http://flesler.blogspot.com/
>
> On Nov 2, 3:28 am, Danny <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> 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.
> >
>
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