Converting data-* attributes to an object

Question

I\'m playing around with the attr-data-* attributes of HTML5 and the corresponding javascript dataset

I\'m doing alot of dynamic form processing, so I end up getting

Answer 1

Don't forget about JSON.stringify and JSON.parse.

var data = document.getElementById('someElement').dataset;
data = JSON.parse(JSON.stringify(data));

According to Mozilla this should work all the way back to IE 8 without a polyfill.