data-attribute

keep data-attributes in dijit widgets

I've started using the HTML5 data- attributes in my application, but when this is applied to an element that is a dijit widget, it disappears. <button dojoType="dijit.form.Button" data-id="5">Number 5</button> Is dojo actually parsing this and keeping it somewhere? Or is it just removed completely because dojo isn't HTML5 compliant? ...