dear lazyweb,

[zwol]

exactly which circle of browser compatibility hell will I be doomed to if I make up my own DIV attributes in a (machine generated) HTML page for the benefit of the Javascript program inside? I mean, like, <div id="foo" xprev="bar" xnext="quux"> instead of having on-the-side associative arrays. (Does Javascript even have associative arrays? It must, but all the documentation I can find online fails to inform, and fails to inspire confidence in what little information it does provide.)

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[queenpam.livejournal.com]

heh, I just tried it and var assocarray = new String(); will work too :)
(that would probably make that first person feel dirty too, but the way objects work is one of my favorite things about javascript)