Do HTML5 custom data attributes “work” in IE 6?

Question

Custom data attributes: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#embedding-custom-non-visible-data

When I say “work”, I mean, if I’ve got HTML like this:

Answer 1

In IE6, it may not work. For reference: MSDN

I suggest using jQuery to handle most of the cases:

var geoff = $("#geoff").data("data-geoff");
alert(geoff);

Try this in your coding.