How can I get the values of data attributes in JavaScript code?

Question

I have next html:

<span data-typeId="123" data-type="topic" data-points="-1" data-important="true" id="the-span"></span>

Is it possible to get the attributes that beginning with data-, and use it in the JavaScript code like code below? For now I get null as result.

document.getElementById("the-span").addEventListener("click", function(){
    var json = JSON.stringify({
        id: parseInt(this.typeId),
        subject: this.datatype,
        points: parseInt(this.points),
        user: "H. Pauwelyn"
    });
});

Answer 1

You need to access the dataset property:

document.getElementById("the-span").addEventListener("click", function() {
  var json = JSON.stringify({
    id: parseInt(this.dataset.typeid),
    subject: this.dataset.type,
    points: parseInt(this.dataset.points),
    user: "Luïs"
  });
});

Result:

// json would equal:
{ "id": 123, "subject": "topic", "points": -1, "user": "Luïs" }

Answer 2

Because the dataset property wasn't supported by Internet Explorer until version 11, you may want to use getAttribute() instead:

document.getElementById("the-span").addEventListener("click", function(){
  console.log(this.getAttribute('data-type'));
});

Dataset documentation

getAttribute documentation

Answer 3

You could also grab the attributes with the getAttribute() method which will return the value of a specific HTML attribute.

const elem = document.getElementById('the-span');

const typeId = elem.getAttribute('data-typeId');
const type   = elem.getAttribute('data-type');
const points = elem.getAttribute('data-points');
const important = elem.getAttribute('data-important');

console.log(`typeId: ${typeId} | type: ${type} | points: ${points} | important: ${important}`
);

<span data-typeId="123" data-type="topic" data-points="-1" data-important="true" id="the-span"></span>

Answer 4

You can access it as

element.dataset.points

etc. So in this case: this.dataset.points

Answer 5

if you are targeting data attribute in Html element,

document.dataset will not work

you should use

document.querySelector("html").dataset.pbUserId

or

document.getElementsByTagName("html")[0].dataset.pbUserId

Answer 6

Modern browsers accepts HTML and SVG DOMnode.dataset

Using pure Javascript's DOM-node dataset property.

It is an old Javascript standard for HTML elements (since Chorme 8 and Firefox 6) but new for SVG (since year 2017 with Chorme 55.x and Firefox 51)... It is not a problem for SVG because in nowadays (2019) the version's usage share is dominated by modern browsers.

The values of dataset's key-values are pure strings, but a good practice is to adopt JSON string format for non-string datatypes, to parse it by JSON.parse().

Using the dataset property in any context

Code snippet to get and set key-value datasets at HTML and SVG contexts.

console.log("-- GET values --")
var x = document.getElementById('html_example').dataset;
console.log("s:", x.s );
for (var i of JSON.parse(x.list)) console.log("list_i:",i)

var y = document.getElementById('g1').dataset;
console.log("s:", y.s );
for (var i of JSON.parse(y.list)) console.log("list_i:",i)

console.log("-- SET values --");
y.s="BYE!"; y.list="null";
console.log( document.getElementById('svg_example').innerHTML )

<p id="html_example" data-list="[1,2,3]" data-s="Hello123">Hello!</p>
<svg id="svg_example">
  <g id="g1" data-list="[4,5,6]" data-s="Hello456 SVG"></g>
</svg>

Answer 7

Circa 2019, using jquery, this can be accessed using $('#DOMId').data('typeId') where $('#DOMId') is the jquery selector for your span element.

Answer 8

Example:

<input data-default-value="Default Value">Name</input>

inputEl.getAttribute("data-default-value")

→ returns: Default Value

Answer 9

document.getElementById('selectTbl').addEventListener('change', function () {
    $("#selectTbl").val();
    var style = $(this).val() == 1 ? 'block' : 'none';
    document.getElementById('TblAdmin').style.display = style;

    var style = $(this).val() == 2 ? 'block' : 'none';
    document.getElementById('TblMech').style.display = style;

    var style = $(this).val() == 3 ? 'block' : 'none';
    document.getElementById('TblUser').style.display = style;

    var style = $(this).val() == 4 ? 'block' : 'none';
    document.getElementById('TblBiz').style.display = style;
});

Sorry to interrupt I think you already got the answer. Can someone help for me? Here I want to display the div which is TblAdmin, TblMech, TblUser, TblBiz. I'm currently using NiceSelect but inside the select dropdown it has data value attribute. It actually not select but list-item inside unordered-list.

Like picture shown here, https://drive.google.com/file/d/1VyHDMb1Gl4PYBe19XZt1Z8Z-2OLAS1mx/view?usp=sharing

Answer 10

Try this instead of your code:

var type=$("#the-span").attr("data-type");
alert(type);

Answer 11

You can actually use JQuery to accomplish that in a very easy way

$(document).on('click', '.the-span', function(){

let type = $(this).data("type");

});