HTML5 microdata: span content?

by

Yes, this is wrong. Neither Microdata nor HTML5 define a content attribute for the span element.

Several people wanted to use it, see for example the code in these questions:

I’m not sure where exactly this confusion is coming from.

(It doesn’t help that Google’s Structured Data Testing Tool incorrectly uses the content attribute instead of the element content; but at least all other Microdata parsers seem to do it correctly.)

Maybe some people got confused because RDFa (but not Microdata) defines and allows the content attribute for span. See HTML+RDFa’s Extensions to the HTML5 Syntax:

For the avoidance of doubt, the following RDFa attributes are allowed on all elements in the HTML5 content model: @vocab, @typeof, @property, @resource, @prefix, @content, @about, @rel, @rev, @datatype, and @inlist.

More Related Contents:

  1. Do you put Schema Microdata meta tags in the html body?
  2. How to add an image to an event with Microdata meta tag?
  3. Microdata vs RDFa
  4. Can Microdata be applied on any type of HTML element? [closed]
  5. Why use Schema.org microdata to mark up web page elements?
  6. Schema.org NewsArticle: invalid value for logo property
  7. Schema.org/Microdata markup for list of recent posts without providing “author” / “publisher”?
  8. How to set a microdata image property, without letting the browser download the image?
  9. Two divs side by side – Fluid display [duplicate]
  10. Expand a div to fill the remaining width
  11. Can I write a CSS selector selecting elements NOT having a certain class or attribute?
  12. Margin-Top push outer div down
  13. Is it sometimes bad to use ?
  14. How to show tag literally in / tag?
  15. Which are the standard W3C meta tags?
  16. Make wrapper take maximum width of child image? [duplicate]
  17. How can I display just a portion of an image in HTML/CSS?
  18. Any reason not to start using the HTML 5 doctype? [closed]
  19. Can I force a page break in HTML printing?
  20. How to escape double quotes in a title attribute
  21. Why would margin not be contained by parent element?
  22. Can comments appear before the DOCTYPE declaration?
  23. Valid content-type for XML, HTML and XHTML documents
  24. Why does CSS padding increase size of element?
  25. How to “crop” a rectangular image into a square with CSS?
  26. CSS Cell Margin
  27. How do I use an image as a submit button?
  28. How to create tables from column data instead of row data in HTML?
  29. Media queries not working inside an iframe
  30. How do I style radio buttons with images – laughing smiley for good, sad smiley for bad?

Leave a Comment