Where is jQuery.data() stored?

Question

Where does jQuery store the values of the data() that it sets to DOM objects?

Is there some kind of variable like jQuery.dataDb or somethin

Answer 1

Ok I figured it out.

jQuery.expando contains a string that's appended to each element which is jQuery + new Date()

HTMLElement[jQuery.expando] contains the key to that element's data

jQuery.cache[HTMLElement[$.expando]] contains the data on the element

Here is a demo