HTML Element: <data>
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The HTML <data> element links content with
a machine-readable translation. It is new in HTML 5. If the content is date or
time based then an alternative is to use a <time> element.
The attributes it can take (other
than HTML global
attributes and HTML
event attributes) include:
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Attribute
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Description
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More
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value
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Value of element
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Here
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To
create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above. The
default style applicable to this element is shown here.
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