JSFiddle - React, Tailwind, and code Playground
HTML
<script src="http://code.jquery.com/jquery.js"></script>
<html>
<body>
<input id="foo" data-someThing="bar" type="text">
</body>
</html>
JavaScript
$(function() {
// used to work in 1.5.2
alert($('#foo').data('someThing'));
// works in 1.6 but seems wrong
alert($('#foo').data('something'));
});