Your code and what you are trying to do has nothing to do with jQuery really.. it's all simple JS object stuff (http://www.google.com/search? q=javascript+associative+array), with that pointed out
var d = {"one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3}; d["four"] = 4; would result in d being: { "one": 1, "two": 2, "three": 3, "four": 4 } On Jul 14, 11:53 am, yasmine <yasmina.ez...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, am very new to jquery and I want to do something that I suppose is > very easy but I can't figure out how to do it > If I have something like this: > var d = {one:1, two:2, three:3}; > > and I want to add a new item to d, how can I do it? > > I have looked up the documentation and found the function called data > (name, value) and I tried doing this > $(d).data("four",4); but it wasn't added > > Thanks in advance