You could also do it with non-styling classes, as an alternative to locating them.
$('div:first').data('foo', 'bar').addClass('foo'); $('.foo'); On Jul 28, 3:15 pm, Basdub <dube.sebast...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks, that should do the trick. > > On Jul 23, 10:44 pm, Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com> wrote: > > > > > One way to retrieve them is to use the .filter() method with a > > function. for example: > > > $('div').filter(function() { > > return $(this).data('foo') == 'bar'; > > > }); > > > --Karl > > > ____________ > > Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com > > > On Jul 21, 2009, at 11:29 AM, Basdub wrote: > > > > I wanted to define additional attribute to a tag to manage > > > information. I realized that XHTML might not like it and discovered > > > the data(name,value) function. > > > > I was wondering how i could retrieve all tags e.g. "div" that have > > > that data variable set.