h-item

<entry-title>h-item</entry-title> Tantek Çelik (Editor)

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h-item is a simple, open format for publishing details about arbitrary items. h-item is one of several open microformat draft standards suitable for embedding data in HTML/HTML5 on the web.

In practice, h-item is almost never used on its own, but rather as the p-item in an h-review if the item being reviewed cannot otherwise be represented by either an h-card, h-product, h-event, or other specific microformat.

Per CC0, to the extent possible under law, the editors have waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to this work. In addition, as of 2024-11-21, the editors have made this specification available under the Open Web Foundation Agreement Version 1.0.

Example

As the only properties defined by h-item are p-name, u-url and u-photo, in practice only the root class name is ever actually required thanks to microformats-2-implied-properties. Explicit properties may be needed for unusual markup structures or to represent multiple values, e.g. multiple URLs, photos. etc..

<a class="h-item" href="http://example.org/items/1">
  <img src="http://example.org/items/1/photo.png" alt="" />
  The Item Name
</a>

Parsed JSON:

{
  "items": [
    {
      "type": [
        "h-item"
      ],
      "properties": {
        "name": [
          "The Item Name"
        ],
        "photo": [
          "http://example.org/items/1/photo.png"
        ],
        "url": [
          "http://example.org/items/1"
        ]
      }
    }
  ]
}

Properties

• p-name - item name
• u-url - permalink URL
• u-photo - photo URL

All properties are optional.

Status

h-item is a microformats.org draft specification. Public discussion on h-item takes place on h-item-feedback, the #microformats irc channel on irc.freenode.net, and microformats-new mailing list.

Property Details

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Examples in the Wild

• … add any h-item examples you find in the wild

Validating

Main article: validators

Test and validate microformats2 markup in general with:

• https://pin13.net/mf2/ - enter your markup directly
• https://pin13.net/ - enter a URL to a page to test where it says "Microformats Parser"

Background

h-item was extracted from the classic hReview microformat as a way of referring to arbitrary reviewed items which cannot be represented by other microformats but which required a “shell” microformat due to the flat property requirement of microformats 2.

See Also

• microformats2
• h-review