Store element's data as html attribute

Question

I already saw some tools which stores some state or data inside element's attribute:

<div clicks="2" id="myDiv" class="some-class">

but it's invalid in some doctypes.

At all. Is this a good solution for stateful elements? If not, some advice will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2412645/whats-the-best-html-attribute-to-use-to-store-information-for-jquery-to-parse — Greg, Jul 10 '13 at 23:20

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 10 '13 at 23:20

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Under HTML5 you have the option to use, valid, data-* attributes, such as, in this case data-clicks to store user-defined data.

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answered Jul 10 '13 at 23:20

David Thomas

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