Properties that are not descendants of an element with the itemscope
attribute can be associated with an item using the global attribute itemref
.
itemref
provides a list of element IDs (not itemid
s) elsewhere in the document, with additional properties
The itemref
attribute can only be specified on elements that have an itemscope
attribute specified.
Note: the itemref
attribute is not part of the microdata data model. It is merely a syntactic construct to aid authors in adding annotations to pages where the data to be annotated does not follow a convenient tree structure. For example, it allows authors to mark up data in a table so that each column defines a separate item while keeping the properties in the cells.
Example
HTML
<div itemscope id="amanda" itemref="a b"></div> <p id="a">Name: <span itemprop="name">Amanda</span> </p> <div id="b" itemprop="band" itemscope itemref="c"></div> <div id="c"> <p>Band: <span itemprop="name">Jazz Band</span> </p> <p>Size: <span itemprop="size">12</span> players</p> </div>
Structured data
(in JSON-LD format)
{ "@id": "amanda", "name": "Amanda", "band": { "@id": "b", "name": "Jazz Band", "size": 12 } }
Result
Specifications
Specification | Status | Comment |
---|---|---|
HTML Microdata The definition of 'itemref' in that specification. |
Working Draft | |
HTML Living Standard The definition of 'itemref' in that specification. |
Living Standard |
Browser compatibility
The compatibility table on this page is generated from structured data. If you'd like to contribute to the data, please check out https://github.com/mdn/browser-compat-data and send us a pull request.
Desktop | Mobile | |||||||||||
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itemref | Chrome Full support Yes | Edge Full support 12 | Firefox Full support Yes | IE Full support Yes | Opera Full support Yes | Safari Full support Yes | WebView Android Full support Yes | Chrome Android Full support Yes | Firefox Android Full support Yes | Opera Android Full support Yes | Safari iOS Full support Yes | Samsung Internet Android Full support Yes |
Legend
- Full support
- Full support