21259 2013-03-12 18:24:56 +0000 Shouldn't it be possible to set a value-property on every tag? E.g.: <span itemprop="sex" value="M">Guy</span> 2013-04-12 23:37:29 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified WHATWG HTML unspecified Other other RESOLVED WORKSFORME http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#the-basic-syntax P3 normal Unsorted 1 contributor ian ian mike contributor oldest_to_newest 84304 0 contributor 2013-03-12 18:24:56 +0000 Specification: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/microdata.html Multipage: http://www.whatwg.org/C#the-basic-syntax Complete: http://www.whatwg.org/c#the-basic-syntax Comment: Shouldn't it be possible to set a value-property on every tag? E.g.: <span itemprop="sex" value="M">Guy</span> Posted from: 5.56.145.226 User agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_2) AppleWebKit/537.22 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/25.0.1364.155 Safari/537.22 86117 1 ian 2013-04-12 23:37:29 +0000 You can: <span itemprop="sex">M</span> ...sets "sex" to "M". If you are asking "shouldn't it be possible to set a _hidden_ value on every tag", then the answer is intentionally that you have to use <meta> for this, as <meta> is ugly, which discourages hidden data, which we want to discourage because it bit rots faster than visible data.