JQuery changing data attribute of <object>

Question

Hi

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?

Answer 1

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

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