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

If you set non-standard properties, be sure to either set them programmatically (as everything will be legal that way) or go through the trouble of revising the dtd !-)

But I would use an ID with a meaningful word prepending the DB-id and then use .getElementById, as every necessary informtion is at hand ...