Remove multiple html5 data-attributes with jquery

Question

So jquery api says the following:

Removing data from jQuery\'s internal .data() cache does not effect any HTML5 data- attributes in a document; use .

Answer 1

In my jQuery placeholder plugin, I’m using the following to get all the attributes for a given element:

function args(elem) {
    // Return an object of element attributes
    var newAttrs = {},
        rinlinejQuery = /^jQuery\d+$/;
    $.each(elem.attributes, function(i, attr) {
        if (attr.specified && !rinlinejQuery.test(attr.name)) {
            newAttrs[attr.name] = attr.value;
        }
    });
    return newAttrs;
}

Note that elem is an element object, not a jQuery object.

You could easily tweak this, to get only data-* attribute names:

function getDataAttributeNames(elem) {
    var names = [],
        rDataAttr = /^data-/;
    $.each(elem.attributes, function(i, attr) {
        if (attr.specified && rDataAttr.test(attr.name)) {
            names.push(attr.name);
        }
    });
    return names;
}

You could then loop over the resulting array, and call removeAttr() for each item on the element.

Here’s a simple jQuery plugin that should do the trick:

$.fn.removeAttrs = function(regex) {
    return this.each(function() {
        var $this = $(this),
            names = [];
        $.each(this.attributes, function(i, attr) {
                if (attr.specified && regex.test(attr.name)) {
                        $this.removeAttr(attr.name);
                }
        });
    });
};

// remove all data-* attributes
$('#my-element').removeAttrs(/^data-/);
// remove all data-lorem* attributes
$('#my-element').removeAttrs(/^data-lorem/);