Do you really need to output this data embedded in the HTML? Does it
have any meaning/purpose without Javascript? There are two simple non-
hackish ways you can do it:
1:
load data later via XHR, use an element identifier to bind it
2:
output metadata in the class attribute - it's valid, and not against
the specification - the class attribute is not specifically meant for
presentation, the specs say "For general purpose processing by user
agents".
ex: class="link { foo: 'bar', amp: 'bamp', x: [1,2,3] }".
It's easy to create your own parser for that:
$.fn.mdata = function(){
return window["eval"]("(" + this[0].className.match(/{.*}/) + ")");
};
$('a').mdata() == Object foo:'bar' etc..
It will work as long as you use valid JSON.
cheers,
Ricardo
On Sep 22, 8:41 pm, WalterGR <walte...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sep 22, 4:35 pm, Ricardo <ricardob...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > This doesn't make any sense. If you're already using jQuery why keep
> > your handler in the HTML?
>
> Because I need to pass additional information to the event handler in
> a clean way. (i.e. rather than hacks using various attributes on the
> anchor.) Is there a non-hackish way to do this?
>
> Thanks for the code snippet - that's what I was looking for.
>
> Walter
