| Tip 3 | Creating Pop-Up Windows with Custom Data Attributes |
If you’ve built any web applications that use JavaScript to grab information out of a document, you know that it can sometimes involve a bit of hackery and parsing to make things work. You’ll end up inserting extra information into event handlers or abusing the rel or class attributes to inject behavior. Those days are now over thanks to the introduction of custom data attributes.
Custom data attributes all start with the prefix data- and are ignored by the validator for HTML5 documents. You can attach a custom data attribute to any element you’d like, whether it be metadata about a photograph, latitude and longitude coordinates, or, as you’ll see in this tip, dimensions for a pop-up window. ...
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