Is there currently a way to use HTML5 <meta> tags outside of <head> in WebKit?

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Bryan Irace picture Bryan Irace · Jan 13, 2011 · Viewed 10.1k times · Source

I'm trying to use <meta> tags throughout my HTML document to mark-up hidden microdata values, as descriped in Mark Pilgrim's Dive Into HTML 5. However, when my page loads in Chrome (specifically, Chromium 6.0.418.0), I get the following error messages:

<meta> is not allowed inside <article>. Moving <meta> into the <head>.
<meta> is not allowed inside <span>. Moving <meta> into the <head>.
<meta> is not allowed inside <div>. Moving <meta> into the <head>.

Is there currently a workaround for this? The same thing happens in Firefox 3.6.13, though I am particularly interested in a workaround for WebKit at this time.

Answer

Ms2ger picture Ms2ger · Jan 13, 2011

More recent versions of WebKit have, like Firefox, an HTML5-compliant parser, and support meta elements outside the head element.

I should also note that W3Schools is not related to the W3C, and is well known to publish utter nonsense. Also, Microdata is still part of HTML, and using it is perfectly fine. The fact that it is published in a separate draft at the W3C does not change that in any way.

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