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**Category:** Help Requests\
**Created:** [November 26, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/custom-html-attribute-value-is-not-bound/3091 "2019-11-26T14:13:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:**  [@fnzr](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/fnzr)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 2:13pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/custom-html-attribute-value-is-not-bound/3091/1 "2019-11-26T14:13:38Z")
Reproduced here: [https://codesandbox.io/s/aurelia-javascript-sandbox-0edzk](https://codesandbox.io/s/aurelia-javascript-sandbox-0edzk)
I’m trying to bind a value to a custom HTML attribute. I have an array like `pages = [{ num: 1, url: "foo"}]`
In my view, I have the following template:
```auto
```
In the sandbox, you can see that “mydiv” has the proper inner text, so the binding is working properly
```auto
> document.querySelector('.mydiv').innerText
<< 1
```
Trying to access the custom attribute gives me null:
```auto
> document.querySelector('.myclass').getAttribute('pagenumber')
<< null
```
I couldn’t find anything in the docs regarding custom HTML attributes, is there any special syntax? What am I missing?
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**Author:**  [@jeffgrann](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/jeffgrann)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 4:07pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/custom-html-attribute-value-is-not-bound/3091/2 "2019-11-26T16:07:03Z")
From what I’m seeing in the sandbox, you are not [using Aurelia to create a custom attribute](https://aurelia.io/docs/templating/custom-attributes#simple-custom-attribute). Also see [Can I add a custom attribute to an HTML tag?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1735230/can-i-add-a-custom-attribute-to-an-html-tag#1735268) on [StackOverflow](https://stackoverflow.com).
What are you trying to do with the pagenumber attribute on the div element?
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**Author:**  [@fnzr](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/fnzr)\
**Post date:** [November 26, 2019, 4:37pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/custom-html-attribute-value-is-not-bound/3091/3 "2019-11-26T16:37:37Z")
Ah, I see. I have to prefix the custom element with `data-`. I’ve never seen these html validations being enforced so it didn’t even cross my mind.
The div will also have a click event, and I’ll use the pagenumber to do some processing. I know I could just attach the pagenumber to the div id or something along these lines, but creating a dedicated attribute just seemed more straightforward.
Creating a custom attribute with aurelia just seemed overkill, although it’s probably the more correct way. I’ll look into it.
Thanks for the help
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**Author:**  [@jeffgrann](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/jeffgrann)\
**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 10:32pm UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/custom-html-attribute-value-is-not-bound/3091/4 "2019-11-27T22:32:17Z")
Glad you figured it out.
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**Author:**  [@deap82](https://discourse.aurelia.io/u/deap82)\
**Post date:** [December 1, 2019, 8:46am UTC](https://discourse.aurelia.io/t/custom-html-attribute-value-is-not-bound/3091/5 "2019-12-01T08:46:29Z")
In your click binding you could just pass the value along in the function call:
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(if you’re at all concerned about accessibility you should choose to use a link or a button for anything that has a click event, that will make the element tabbable and “clickable” out of the box also for keyboard users)