Storing arbitrary info in HTML tags for JavaScript?

Question

A very general question.

I am dynamically generating a form that is split into multiple levels of tabs using HTML / JavaScript.

I want to highlight some of t

Answer 1

In jQuery you have the Data API for the matter. http://docs.jquery.com/Internals/jQuery.data

If you do not use jQuery, you can add your own tags and store anything in it. everybody will tell you this is not nice etc, but all the great web firms are doing so. so you will end up in a great company ;-)