Ultimate Guide to Microformats: Reference and Examples

If you’re not familiar with the concept of POSH (plain old semantic HTML), the first thing to know is that producing semantic code that reflects content contextually (rather than stylistically) is a critical component of the web design process. While HTML has a whole bunch of awesome elements by which to convey meaning, a slew of purpose-built microformats (conventions) have been created to better represent the kind of content that exists on the page. This guide discusses popular microformats that can enhance the semantics and interoperability of your website.

What Are Microformats?
Microformats are pretty interesting if you give them a chance. While they aren’t a component of the W3C HTML spec, they do offer a valuable and useful set of naming conventions (using class, id, rel and rev attribute values) that identify points of interest on the page, such as calendar events, links to the content’s license agreement, and even quirky things such as cooking recipes.

While microformats are not a W3C standard yet–though many microformats either have been recommended to the W3C as standards or are in draft form–the level of support browsers and web services have for them explains their utility.

Simply put: microformats are worth learning about and implementing into the websites you build.

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