Get the data named "blah" stored at for an element.

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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"> <html> <head> <script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery-latest.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript"> $(document).ready(function(){ $("button").click(function(e) { var value; switch ($("button").index(this)) { case 0 : value = $("div").data("blah"); break; case 1 : $("div").data("blah", "hello"); value = "Stored!"; break; case 2 : $("div").data("blah", 86); value = "Stored!"; break; case 3 : $("div").removeData("blah"); value = "Removed!"; break; } $("span").text("" + value); }); }); </script> <style> div { margin:5px; background:yellow; } button { margin:5px; font-size:14px; } p { margin:5px; color:blue; } span { color:red; } </style> </head> <body> <div>A div</div> <button>Get "blah" from the div</button> <button>Set "blah" to "hello"</button> <button>Set "blah" to 86</button> <button>Remove "blah" from the div</button> <p>The "blah" value of this div is <span>?</span></p> </body> </html>
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