store information in a tag?

[Kourosh]

I want to store some state infomation for each DIV tag on a page. Which
property of the DIV tag should I use for this?
ie I want to iterate through all DIV tags, and associate each with a
'state' and store that information in the tag

 

[Ian Collins]

I want to store some state infomation for each DIV tag on a page. Which
property of the DIV tag should I use for this?
ie I want to iterate through all DIV tags, and associate each with a
'state' and store that information in the tag

Why not just add a property 'state' to each div?

 

[Robert]

I want to store some state infomation for each DIV tag on a page. Which
property of the DIV tag should I use for this?
ie I want to iterate through all DIV tags, and associate each with a
'state' and store that information in the tag

Have you thought about storing the states in a seperate javascript
object? Perhaps you can assign id's to the DIV tags that you want to
store states for and use those id's to map them to states in a seperate
object.

Robert.

 

[Kourosh]

Have you thought about storing the states in a seperate javascript
object? Perhaps you can assign id's to the DIV tags that you want to
store states for and use those id's to map them to states in a seperate
object.

Robert.

I see. How would i use the IDs to efficiently map to an array of
states. Is there a hashtable?

 

[Kourosh]

Why not just add a property 'state' to each div?

Oh hah thanks. I didnt know I could do that

 

[Robert]

I see. How would i use the IDs to efficiently map to an array of
states. Is there a hashtable?

Each object in javascript works quite similar as a hashtable.
Take for example this code:

function StateStorage()
{
var map = new Object();

this.store = function(id, state)
{
map[id] = state;
}

this.retrieve = function(id)
{
return map[id];
}
}

var stateStorage = new StateStorage();
stateStorage.store(divId, "my state object");