jQuery get an element by its data-id

Question

Similar to this question here, I'm looking to get an element based on it's data-id.

<a href="#" class="whatever" data-item-id="stand-out">...</a>

I'm looking to take action on the a tag. It has a shared class amongst many other elements and has no base id, just a data-item-id.

Can the element be found by it's data-item-id or can I only find out what the data-item-id is?

possible duplicate of [Select elements by HTML5 data attribute in jQuery](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4993447/select-elements-by-html5-data-attribute-in-jquery) — Kevin B, Nov 08 '13 at 18:57
For those that arrived here via Google. Note that the answers here reflect how to get an element by data-item-id and not data-id. — Gabe, Jun 05 '19 at 14:12

score 83 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 08 '13 at 18:56

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$('[data-item-id="stand-out"]')

answered Nov 08 '13 at 18:56

kumarharsh

score 61 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 08 '13 at 18:56

61

You can always use an attribute selector. The selector itself would look something like:

a[data-item-id=stand-out]

answered Nov 08 '13 at 18:56

Justin Niessner

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Double quotes around (in this case) stand-out are required as per kd12's answer. Note also that this expression will search every a element on the page. If you want to optimize it, you can limit the search using a parent element id or a class. – Henrik Erlandsson Jan 09 '20 at 09:51

score 25 · Answer 3 · edited Aug 14 '17 at 00:54

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This worked for me, in my case I had a button with a data-id attribute:

$("a").data("item-id");

edited Aug 14 '17 at 00:54

Studocwho

answered Apr 23 '15 at 22:52

Trevor

score 21 · Answer 4 · answered Nov 08 '13 at 19:24

21

Yes, you can find out element by data attribute.

element = $('a[data-item-id="stand-out"]');

answered Nov 08 '13 at 19:24

kd12

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