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HTML

What is the data-role?

Hi, I expect inside a tag to be something like ids classes but I see these (data-role, data-position . . .) is this part of html language?

3 Answers

It's really part of javascript, but the data attribute allows us to store information about element. It's kind of a handy way to pass information out of a database, into javascript.

If you're using jquery, you can get the value of a data attribute using .data()

So if I had <div class="box" data-role="presentation">The box</div> I could call var el = $('.box').data('role'); and than if you were to console.log(el); it would return presentation as the value.

Just be aware, this is a very insecure way to pass data around. Never rely on this for user permissions, roles, passwords, or anything authenticating wise. Not only can it be seen by anybody or user of your site, the value of the data attribute can manually be changed by a user.

It may be JQuery, but it goes in your HTML file.

Thank you all guys.