Store then retrieve a value from the div 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(){ $("div").data("test", { first: 16, last: "pizza!" }); $("span:first").text($("div").data("test").first); $("span:last").text($("div").data("test").last); }); </script> <style> div { color:blue; } span { color:red; } </style> </head> <body> <div> The values stored were <span></span> and <span></span> </div> </body> </html>
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