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Store values in html

Answer 1

+2 A:

You can store it as text inside the div if you like. You also can use inputs, just add the form tag around everything. Just because it's a form doesn't mean it has to "submit". Inputs or textboxes would probably be the best way to store them actually.

Joel Etherton 2010-02-01 03:06:09

Maybe i should accept this. This is what i am using.

acidzombie24 2010-02-11 14:03:53

instead of a div i used textarea and jquert .val()

acidzombie24 2010-02-12 06:11:51

Answer 2

+4 A:

Best way is to use the new HTML 5 spec to store data in the data-[name] in the div elements

ie

<div data-yourfield="value">
  Text
</div>

Then using jQuery find the divs with the selector (reference http://api.jquery.com/category/selectors/)

div[data-yourField=""]

Jason Jong 2010-02-01 03:18:55

Jason, you have a link to this portion of the spec?

Mike Sherov 2010-02-01 04:00:05

Hi Mike, see this URL http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/Half way down the doc you'll see "There are also several new global attributes:" :: The data-* collection of author-defined attributes. Authors can define any attribute they want as long as they prefix it with data- to avoid clashes with future versions of HTML. The only requirement on these attributes is that they are not used for user agent extensions. Also, John Resig talks about them in his blog: http://ejohn.org/blog/html-5-data-attributes/

Jason Jong 2010-02-01 04:32:45

Here is the proper link: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#attr-data

Jason Jong 2010-02-01 04:35:44

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