My Javascript knowledge is pretty limited.

Instead of asking several javascript questions I got the "message" from Stack overflow and started using jQuery right away in order to save me some time.

However several times I do not undestand the "magic" behind jQuery and I would love to learn the details.

I want to use .data() in my application. The examples are very helpful. I do not understand however WHERE these values are stored.

I inspect the webpage with Firebug and as soon as .data() saves an object to a dom element, I do not see any change in Firebug (either HTML or Dom tabs).

I tried to look at jQuery source, but it is very advanced for my Javascript knowledge and I lost myself.

So the question is:

Where do the values stored by jQuery.data() actually go? Can I inspect/locate/list/debug them using a tool?