Opinion: in HTML, Possible Duplicate IDs or Non-Standard Attributes?

Question

It seems pretty common to want to let your javascript know a particular dom node corresponds to a record in the database. So, how do you do it?

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Answer 1

Note that an ID cannot start with a digit, so:

is invalid HTML. See What are valid values for the id attribute in HTML?

In your case, I would use ID's like thing5 or thing.5.