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Asked: 2026-05-11T19:09:27+00:00

Works perfectly in FF (as you’d expect) but for some reason when I do

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Works perfectly in FF (as you’d expect) but for some reason when I do this:

$('#objectname').attr('data', 'newcontent.php')

…absolutely nothing happens in IE.

When I do an 

alert($('#objectname').attr('data', 'newcontent.php'))

it shows the new data source but doesn’t change it…

Any ideas please?

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t think data is a valid HTML attribute. Did you mean to use the jQuery data() function?

    $('#objectname').data('name','value');

    Update for 9/2014 — This question and answer is over five years old now, and isn’t really relevant any more. data is now a valid attribute. I’m leaving my original answer for historical purposes though.

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