I’m a total noob in the web arena, I’ve been learning jQuery lately. My concern is, will I be able to access the ‘data‘ attribute using jQuery from my HTML if my browser does not support HTML5?
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I’m a total noob in the web arena, I’ve been learning jQuery lately. My concern is, will I be able to access the ‘data‘ attribute using jQuery from my HTML if my browser does not support HTML5?
Yes, you can use the data attribute and you will be able to access it with jQuery even if the browser doesn’t support HTML5:
where you have:
The only thing is that the
dataattribute is not valid if your DOCTYPE is not HTML5 => if you try to use it in HTML 4.01 Transitional for example the validator will cry but your site will work without issues.