Custom attributes - Yea or nay?

Question

Recently I have been reading more and more about people using custom attributes in their HTML tags, mainly for the purpose of embedding some extra bits of data for use in ja

Answer 1

I know people are against it, but I came up with a super short solution for this. If you want to use a custom attribute like "mine" so for example:

Test

Then you can run this code to get an object back just like jquery.data() does.

var custom_props = {} ;
$.each($(".selector")[0].attributes, function(i,x) {
    if (this.specified && x.name.indexOf("mine-") !== -1) 
        self.new_settings[x.name.replace("modal-","")] = x.value;
});