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charliepark / gist:4266921
Created December 12, 2012 10:58
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.
<!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>