| ▲ | jdsleppy 3 days ago | |
They could always fall back to storing a value in a hidden element in the worst case. All/some/none selected is often done with an indeterminate state checkbox https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Reference/... that can represent all three states. Maybe I don't understand the problem you are talking about. | ||
| ▲ | motorest a day ago | parent | next [-] | |
> They could always fall back to storing a value in a hidden element in the worst case. This approach sounds like it's desperately trying to shove a square peg through a round hole. Why would anyone choose to use an element, hidden or not, to store a value as an alternative to use a very pedestrian JavaScript variable? | ||
| ▲ | robocat 3 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
As soon as you need to store some state elsewhere you can store it in another suitable form (there's often some state not visually represented). I seem to recall jQuery stored state on a POJO (plain old JavaScript object) within a JavaScript variable of an element. | ||