I actually found this while waiting for this message to be approved to the
list, what I ended up using was a slight modification so it does a deep
clone/copy
var aCopy = jQuery.extend(true, {}, $('#something option:first').data
('value'));
dave.methvin wrote:
>
>
>> Is there a way to get just a copy of the data, not the reference to the
>> data
>> itself?
>
> You could use something like this:
>
> var aCopy = jQuery.extend({}, $('#something option:first').data
> ('value'));
>
> Since extend returns its first argument, you'd get the a new object
> with all the data values copied.
>
>
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