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Bug 14630 - This sentence is rather confusing, it seems to indicate that <data> should be used with data-*, or can be replaced by data-*: "The element can also, however, be used in conjunction with scripts in the page, for when a script has store a literal value alon
Summary: This sentence is rather confusing, it seems to indicate that <data> should be...
Status: RESOLVED NEEDSINFO
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2011-10-31 16:03 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-07-18 18:42 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2011-10-31 16:03:56 UTC 
Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/text-level-semantics.html
Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-data-element
Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-data-element

Comment:
This sentence is rather confusing, it seems to indicate that <data> should be
used with data-*, or can be replaced by data-*: "The element can also,
however, be used in conjunction with scripts in the page, for when a script
has store a literal value alongside a human-readable value. In such cases, the
format to be used depends only on the needs of the script. (The data-*
attributes can also be useful in such situations.)" It could use some
clarification.

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2011-11-01 03:32:54 UTC 
I'm not really sure how to clarify it... <data> can indeed be used with data-*, or can be replaced by data-*, depending on what you're doing. Can you elaborate on what is unclear?