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Can Microdata be applied on any type of HTML element?

In all examples around the web I see Microdata properties itemscope and itemtype being applied to div elements, like so:

<div itemscope itemtype ="http://schema.org/Movie">
  <h1 itemprop="name">Avatar</h1>
  <span>Director: <span itemprop="director">James Cameron</span> (born August 16, 1954)</span>
  <span itemprop="genre">Science fiction</span>
  <a href="../movies/avatar-theatrical-trailer.html" itemprop="trailer">Trailer</a>
</div>

But can Microdata be applied on any other element, in my case I want to apply it to a list item:

<ul>
<li itemscope itemtype ="http://schema.org/Movie">
  <h1 itemprop="name">Avatar</h1>
  <span>Director: <span itemprop="director">James Cameron</span> (born August 16, 1954)</span>
  <span itemprop="genre">Science fiction</span>
  <a href="../movies/avatar-theatrical-trailer.html" itemprop="trailer">Trailer</a>
</li>
</ul>

Are there any known problems with this?

Solution

  • Simply put, "Yes". Check out the Google page yourself to see them use it in different tags: https://support.google.com/webmasters/answer/176035?hl=en