jQuery data() type conversion issue?

Question

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" ?

Answer 1

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