Question

So I have a habit of using the attribute lang as my selector and store microdata,in jquery.

Althought it is not w3 compliant.But is it a good thing.
Also is there any alternative to this.

something like this. $(‘[lang=153]’) to get this dom and $(this)[0].lang to get the data.

Answer 1

You can put the data into your element using the data- prefix:

<div data-lang="123">Text</div>

Then you can select this element and read the data like this:

var lang = $('[data-lang="123"]').data('lang');

http://jsfiddle.net/C3LCp/