Can t update data-attribute value

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Although there are some examples about this on the web  it does not seem to work correctly  I can t figure out the problem   I have this simple html            lt div id  foo  data-num  0  gt  lt   div gt            lt a href     id  changeData  gt change data value lt  a gt    Every time I click the link  change data value  I want to update the data value of data-num  For example I need it to be 1 2 3 4      plus 1 every time I click the link   what I have is              var num       foo   data  num                console log num               num   num 1                             console log num                   foo   attr  data-num   num        The value changes one time from 0 to 1 every time  I can t make it incremental  Any suggestions what I m doing wrong

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Use that instead  if you wish to change the attribute data-num of node element  not of data object   DEMO      changeData   click function  e         e preventDefault        var num        foo   attr  data-num        console log num       num   num   1      console log num           foo   attr  data-num   num         PS  but you should use the data   object in virtually all cases  but not all

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Had a similar problem  I propose this solution althought is not supported in IE 10 and under   Given    lt div id  example  data-example-update  1  gt  lt  div gt    The Javascript standard defines a property called dataset to update data-example-update    document getElementById  example   dataset exampleUpdate   2    Note  use camel case notation to access the correct data attribute   Source  https   developer mozilla org en-US docs Learn HTML Howto Use data attributes

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I had the same problem of the html data tag not updating when i was using jquery But changing the code that does the actual work from jquery to javascript worked   Try using this when the button is clicked   Note that the main code is Javascripts setAttribute   function    function increment q           increment current num by adding with 1     q   q 1         change data attribute using JS setAttribute function     div setAttribute  data-num  q          refresh data-num value  get data-num value again using JS getAttribute function      num   parseInt div getAttribute  data-num            show values     console log   After Increment  Current Num    num         get variables  set as global vars var div   document getElementById  foo    var num   parseInt div getAttribute  data-num        increment values using click     changeData   on  click  function           pass current data-num as parameter     increment num

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This answer is for those seeking to just change the value of a data-attribute  The suggested will not change the value of your Jquery data-attr correctly as  adeneo has stated  For some reason though  I m not seeing him  or any others  post the correct method for those seeking to update their data-attr  The answer that  Lucas Willems has posted may be the answer to problem Brian Tompsett -     is having  but it s not the answer to the inquiry that may be bringing other users here   Quick answer in regards to original inquiry statement  -To update data-attr      ElementId   attr  data-attributeTitle  newAttributeValue     Easy mistakes  - there must be  data-  at the beginning of your attribute you re looking to change the value of

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Had similar problem and in the end I had to set both   obj attr  data-myvar   myval     and   obj data  myvar   myval     And after this   obj data  myvar      obj attr  data-myvar     Hope this helps

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For myself  using Jquery lib 2 1 1 the following did NOT work the way I expected   Set element data attribute value       my-class   data  num    myValue    console log     myElem   data  num       as expected    myValue    BUT the element itself remains without the attribute    lt div class  my-class  gt  lt  div gt    I needed the DOM updated so I could later do     my-class data-num  myValue       current length is 0  So I had to do      my-class   attr  data-num    myValue      To get the DOM to update    lt div class  my-class  data-num  myValue  gt  lt  div gt    Whether the attribute exists or not   attr will overwrite

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THE ANSWER BELOW IS THE GOOD ONE  You aren t using the data method correctly  The correct code to update data is       foo   data  num   num      So your example would be   var num       foo   data  num     1         console log num             foo   data  num   num    console log num

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If we wanted to retrieve or update these attributes using existing  native JavaScript  then we can do so using the getAttribute and setAttribute methods as shown below       JavaScript        lt script gt      Getting  data-attributes using getAttribute var plant   document getElementById  strawberry-plant    var fruitCount   plant getAttribute  data-fruit       fruitCount    12       Setting  data-attributes using setAttribute plant setAttribute  data-fruit   7       Pesky birds  lt  script gt    Through jQuery     Fetching data var fruitCount     this  data  fruit        Above does not work in firefox  So use below to get attribute value  var fruitCount     this  attr  data-fruit        Assigning data   this  data  fruit   7        But when you get the value again  it will return old value      You have to set it as below to update value  Then you will get updated value    this  attr  data-fruit   7       Read this documentation for vanilla js or this documentation for jquery

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Basically  there are two ways to set   update data attribute value  depends on your need  The difference is just  where the data saved   If you use  data   it will be saved in local variable called data user  and its not visible upon element inspection  If you use  attr   it will be publicly visible   Much clearer explanation on this comment

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