Get jquery plugin options from data-* attributes?

Question

Is it possible to do something like that:

<ul class="handle" data-option="9000">

$('.handle').pluginName({
    option: $('this').data('option'),
});

where $('this') should target the $('.handle') which is being initialized.

Answer 1

No, it isn't, you can loop through the elements:

$('.handle').each(function() {
   var $this = $(this);
   $this.pluginName({ option: $this.data('option') });
});

Or if you are the plugin's author read the data-* attributes in your plugin.