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Bug 21259 - Shouldn't it be possible to set a value-property on every tag? E.g.: <span itemprop="sex" value="M">Guy</span>
Summary: Shouldn't it be possible to set a value-property on every tag? E.g.: <span it...
Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
URL: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/...
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Reported: 2013-03-12 18:24 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2013-04-12 23:37 UTC (History)
2 users (show)

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Description contributor 2013-03-12 18:24:56 UTC 
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>

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Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2013-04-12 23:37:29 UTC 
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.