I have the following div <div data-item-id="0234"> and when I try to access the data with $element.data("itemId") jQuery converts it to int and now i get 234 instead of "0234". Is there any way i can get the actual data "0234" ?

I have the following div <div data-item-id="0234"> and when I try to access the data with $element.data("itemId") jQuery converts it to int and now i get 234 instead of "0234". Is there any way i can get the actual data "0234" ?

• javascript
• jquery
• type-conversion

3 Answers 3

Simply use .attr instead ($element.attr('data-item-id');). The docs themselves suggest this.

Try this:

$element.attr("data-item-id")

Using attr: http://jsbin./ipuhah/

$(selector).attr("data-item-id");