The new schema.org by Google, Yahoo and MS recommends usage of the attribute to display the status of products in an online shop:
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To make sure the code is cross-browser compatible, rather include your stylesheet like this:
<style>
@import url(style.css);
</style>
Putting a stylesheet in the body is usually considered bad practice, however it can be helpful in some cases:
I'd like to add to the answers above, in short
<body>
<link rel="stylesheet" property="stylesheet" href="pathto.css">
</body>
is making the valdation error go away. Even just adding property=""
(RDFa syntax or itemprop=""
(Microformat syntax) attribute is sufficient. As @Jukka K. Korpela and @sideshowbarker explain in their answers, the reason lies in the HTML5+RDFa 1.1 spec.
The solution above is basically a workaround to let validator ignore inline stylesheets as needed in critical path implementations. In future versions of validators it hopefully gets obsolete.
By the way, in HTML5 you neither need a type attribute nor self-closing tag syntax.
Link is allowed in BODY. I had same problem validating link tag in HTML5 and I solved it with this
<link rel="stylesheet" property="stylesheet" href="css/homepage.css">
Need to have both property
and rel
tag
UPDATE 2016 (thanks to yuyokk below): There was a change to HTML5 spec recently that allows having links in the body
There was a change to HTML5 spec recently that allows having links in the body
The WHATWG HTML specification mentions, that the LINK
-element can either have a rel
-attribute:
<link rel="…" />
or an itemprop
-attribute
<link itemprop="…" />
but not both.
The rel
-version is restricted to the HEAD
-element, whereas the itemprop
-version may appear in both, the HEAD
and BODY
-elements.
http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/semantics.html#the-link-element
What is this WHATWG specification:
whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/introduction.html#is-this-html5?
The specification as of March 2020:
If the
rel
attribute is used, the element can only sometimes be used in thebody
of the page. When used with theitemprop
attribute, the element can be used both in thehead
element and in thebody
of the page, subject to the constraints of the microdata model.
which is the opposite to what the accepted answer says as far as the rel
attribute is concerned. I have personally never experienced issues by adding rel
in the head
though.
Microdata is a WHATWG HTML specification used to nest metadata within existing content on web pages. Browsers, web crawlers and in particular search engines can extract and process Microdata from a web page and use it to provide a richer browsing experience for users.