Using jquery to ref a Dropdown decrements my dropdown array?
<p>I'm trying to use $.data() for the first time.  I want to store some data...append that data to a label but I don't know if this $.data() can be used to append to ANY DOM element such as labels, you name it or only to elements such as divs and specific elements like that.</p>

<pre><code>$('#myLabelID').data({"carId":carId, "carName":carName});
alert("the value stored for carId is: " + $('#myLabelID').data("carId"));
</code></pre>

<p>It seems to get to my alert but it's saying that the value carId is undefined so I don't know if my first line is right.  I know carId has a value.</p>

<p>I want to be able to retrieve this data later on for specific reasons...do I don't know if I can stash it in this label or not.</p>
