From b3940d2f78dfcc37792ceb97e5659b78f156794c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: jzaefferer <joern.zaefferer@gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 30 Jul 2010 14:04:11 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Replace element.data(...) with $.data(element, ...). Fixes
 #5756 - Widget: Use $.data instead of .data for performance reasons

---
 ui/jquery.ui.widget.js | 3 ++-
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
index 265489866a9..e21287ae056 100644
--- a/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
+++ b/ui/jquery.ui.widget.js
@@ -129,7 +129,8 @@ $.Widget.prototype = {
 	_createWidget: function( options, element ) {
 		// $.widget.bridge stores the plugin instance, but we do it anyway
 		// so that it's stored even before the _create function runs
-		this.element = $( element ).data( this.widgetName, this );
+		$.data( element, this.widgetName, this );
+		this.element = $( element );
 		this.options = $.extend( true, {},
 			this.options,
 			$.metadata && $.metadata.get( element )[ this.widgetName ],