title: How to assign custom property to jQuery object?
body: <p>I need to assign a custom property to a jQuery object. Here is the object:</p>
  
  <pre><code>var object = $("&lt;div id='item'&gt;&lt;/div&gt;");
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I need <code>object</code> to have a custom data member. How can I add this?</p>