jQuery .data() usage

20. January 2012 Anil Kumar jQuery Comments (0)

I use .data for storing values instead of accessing DOM elements. I realized and found a better and faster way of it. In fact I have been using 

$('#myElementID').data(myKey,myValue);
for a while now. 
 
Check out following/ these cases-
 
The other way for the same is as -
$.data('#myElementID', key, value );
?
 
case 1 : 
$('#myElementID').data(key,value);
?
It creates a jQuery object and then do the data parsing. It creates an overhead.
 
 
case 2 :
$.data('#myElementID', key, value );
This one is faster than first. As it does not go for object creation.
 
 
Thanks.
 
 
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