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Asked: 2026-06-16T02:43:10+00:00

I’m looking for an elegant way to add data to an element on server

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I’m looking for an elegant way to add data to an element on server side so that jQuery/JavaScript can use it. I also do not want to make too many calls to server so data must be there upfront.

Scenario example.
Server side (PHP), I create a list of user images. To this, I want to add name, surname, age, etc.

When clicking on the images, jQuery must then do something with this data.

Possibilities I’ve considered:
Have the data as href, then on click, get the href and return false.
Have the data as classes.

Are there any better ways?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The HTML specification reserves attributes beginning with data- for this purpose. For example:

    <p data-name="John Doe" data-age="256">Hello World</p>

    You can name them as you like as long as you follow the data-* format.

    If you want structured semantic data, consider using RDFa Lite with an appropriate schema.

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