Pull data-* attributes into .data(). Original code by Andrée Hasson and Paul Irish...

[jquery.git] / src / data.js

diff --git a/src/data.js b/src/data.js
index 5404c93..f2cfc81 100644 (file)
--- a/src/data.js
+++ b/src/data.js
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 (function( jQuery ) {
 
-var windowData = {};
+var windowData = {},
+       rnum = /^-?[0-9.]$/;
 
 jQuery.extend({
        cache: {},
@@ -142,8 +143,23 @@ jQuery.fn.extend({
                if ( value === undefined ) {
                        var data = this.triggerHandler("getData" + parts[1] + "!", [parts[0]]);
 
+                       // Try to fetch any internally stored data first
                        if ( data === undefined && this.length ) {
                                data = jQuery.data( this[0], key );
+
+                               // If nothing was found internally, try to fetch any
+                               // data from the HTML5 data-* attribute
+                               if ( data === undefined && this[0].nodeType === 1 ) {
+                                       data = this[0].getAttribute( "data-" + key );
+
+                                       if ( data != null ) {
+                                               data = data === "true" ? true :
+                                                       data === "false" ? false :
+                                                       data === "null" ? null :
+                                                       rnum.test( data ) ? parseFloat( data ) :
+                                                       data;
+                                       }
+                               }
                        }
 
                        return data === undefined && parts[1] ?