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You can use arrays and hashes in HTML5 data attributes. Use JSON.parse, and make sure you're using single quotes around the brackets and double quotes inside the brackets.
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<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
</head>
<body>
<div id="animals" data-animals='["cat", "dog", "bird"]'></div>
<div id="vehicles" data-vehicles='{"motorcycle":"Harley", "car":"Herbie", "steamshovel":"Mike"}'></div>
<script type="text/javascript" src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.7.2/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" charset="utf-8">
$(function(){
var a = JSON.parse($('#animals').attr('data-animals'))[0];
$('#animals').html(a);
var v = JSON.parse($('#vehicles').attr('data-vehicles')).car;
$('#vehicles').html(v);
});
</script>
</body>
</html>
@funkatron82
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You can use the jquery function data instead of parse and attr:

var a = $('#animals').data('data-animals');  //will patse JSON automagically

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Yoelx commented Jan 29, 2019

You can indeed retrieve it via the jquery function data, but if you do, you need to lose the data- part of the data-attribute. So in the example:

var a = $('#animals').data('animals'); // not .data('data-animals')

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