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VPfB
VPfB

Reputation: 17387

jQuery .data() does not return boolean value; why?

I'm very unexperienced jQuery programmer unable to find a bug in my trivial script. Could you please help?

I want to emphasize a checkbox if its state differs from the initial value. That initial value is stored as data-init attribute. The generated html for checked and unchecked input looks like this:

<td><input checked data-init id="controls-0-modeU" name="controls-0-modeU" type="checkbox" value="y"></td>

<td><input id="controls-1-modeU" name="controls-1-modeU" type="checkbox" value="y"></td>

In the accepted answer here: Retrieve boolean data from data attribute in jquery there is: "The jQuery .data() method is smart about recognizing boolean and numeric values and converts them into their native type". That is what I want.

My script begins with:

$(document).ready(function(){
        $("td input:checkbox").change(function(){
            var $init = $(this).data("init")

But the value of $init is either undefined (for initially unchecked input) or an empty string (for initially checked). Both of them evaluate to false. Why am I not getting true/false instead?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 987

Answers (2)

Musa
Musa

Reputation: 97727

A data attribute is not treated like a boolean attribute by jQuery(like checked, readonly, etc) so you have to give it a value

<td><input checked data-init="true" id="controls-0-modeU" name="controls-0-modeU" type="checkbox" value="y"></td>

<td><input  data-init="false" id="controls-1-modeU" name="controls-1-modeU" type="checkbox" value="y"></td>

if you want to keep your mark up you'll have to do the heavy lifting yourself

var $init = $(this).is("[data-init]");

Upvotes: 3

Shiran Dror
Shiran Dror

Reputation: 1480

you can check if the element has the attribute like so:

if (!!$(this).attr("data-init")) {
  // its there
}
else {
  // its not
}

Upvotes: 0

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