Trouble setting data with $.data()

Question

I can't seem to get this to store. I now that the id and name are definitely valid as I alerted them out right before this code was called:

$('#carText').data("carId", carId);
$('#carText').data("carName", carName);

alert("value stored for carId: " + $("#carText").data("carId").carId);

I get undefined when I try to alert out the value that I supposedly stored.

Answer 1

don't need the .cardId at the end

alert("value stored for carId: " + $("#carText").data("carId"));