17429 2012-06-06 15:33:13 +0000 is the "name" attribute valid on <meta> element in <body> context? Validator says no at the moment, but this document doesn't preclude the possibility. 2012-07-18 18:39:53 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-meta-element P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 68765 0 contributor 2012-06-06 15:33:13 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/ Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-meta-element Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-meta-element Comment: is the "name" attribute valid on <meta> element in <body> context? Validator says no at the moment, but this document doesn't preclude the possibility. Posted from: 89.255.128.66 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_4) AppleWebKit/536.5 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/19.0.1084.53 Safari/536.5 68778 1 mike 2012-06-07 08:00:34 +0000 If you're looking just at the W3C HTML spec itself only, that does actually preclude the possibility of the meta element being using in the body atl, because it classifies meta strictly as metadata content, which is only allowed within the head element. But the Microdata spec says that if a meta element has an itemprop attribute, that makes it flow content and phrasing content, which allows it to be used in the body. But it also adds the restriction that If a meta element has an itemprop attribute, the name, http-equiv, and charset attributes must be omitted. http://dev.w3.org/html5/md/#other-changes-to-html5 So that means meta@name is never allowed in the body.