HTML Data Attribute IE6 Support

Does HTML's data attribute work in IE6? I'm using the attribute like this data- prefix.

The data- prefix is recommended because it is now part of the standard, so there's a chance that a future browser may be more picky about it, and also because of the new dataset property that was added to HTML5 DOM specification at the same time to support it.

Obviously you can't use the dataset property, as very few browsers support it (not even newer ones, let alone older ones), but you can of course always use the good old getAttribute() method instead (which is what jQuery does).

To find out about browser support for new properties, I recommend the CanIUse.com site. For example, here is their page about data- attributes: http://caniuse.com/#search=dataset. They have full browser support tables for a wide range of features.

Hope that helps.

Solution 2:

You can use IETester in order to test your websites on the different versions of IE and yes it those work on IE6 , IE has supported getAttribute() from IE4 which is what jQuery uses internally for data().