Meta tags itemprop

html meta-tags microdata
pessi picture pessi · Jan 9, 2013 · Viewed 31.7k times · Source

I am trying to include extracted structured data in my webpages.

I included this for description:

<meta itemprop="description" content="my description" />

However I realised that there is already a normal meta description on the page:

<meta name="description" content="my description" />

Is it ok to leave both of them or it is really necessary to merge them together maybe like:

<meta itemprop="description" name="description" content="" />

Answer

Alohci picture Alohci · Jan 10, 2013

You should leave both of them. The Microdata Spec says:

If a meta element has an itemprop attribute, the name, http-equiv, and charset attributes must be omitted, and the content attribute must be present.

so it would be invalid to merge them.

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