jQuery how to find an element based on a data-attribute value?

Question

I\'ve got the following scenario:

var el = \'li\';

and there are 5

\'s on the page each with a data-slide=numb

Answer 1

in case you don't want to type all that, here's a shorter way to query by data attribute:

$("ul[data-slide='" + current +"']");

FYI: http://james.padolsey.com/javascript/a-better-data-selector-for-jquery/