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Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition
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Learning jQuery 3 - Fifth Edition

by Adam Boduch, Jonathan Chaffer, Karl Swedberg
May 2017
Intermediate to advanced
448 pages
10h 10m
English
Packt Publishing
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HTML5 custom data attributes

The code examples we've seen so far in this chapter have all used JavaScript APIs exposed by plugins in order to invoke the plugin functionality. We've seen jQuery object methods, global functions, and custom selectors as some ways that plugins offer their services to our scripts. The jQuery Mobile library has these entry points as well, but the most common way of interacting with it is instead via HTML5 data attributes.

The HTML5 specification allows us to insert any attribute we want into an element, so long as the attribute is prefixed by data-. Such attributes are completely ignored when rendering the page, but are available to us in our jQuery scripts. When we include jQuery Mobile on a page, the script scans ...

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