Hi Tom, (Different forum, still me ;-) )
My understanding is that yes you can (put anything you like in the text). It's the @datetime data that is restricted to a machine-readable format. If, however, you don't give the @datetime value then the content of the element itself must be a valid date. So this is OK:
<time datetime="2012-05-22T20:20Z">now</time> and this is OK <time>2012-05-22</time> HTH Phil. On 22/05/2012 19:43, Tom Livingston wrote:
Hello list, i wasn't able to find an answer on google specifically for what my question is, so here goes: when using the time element, can you put ANY text within the open and close tags? Like: <time datetime="2012-02-03">02.03.12 - Asia Pacific</time> Is the addition of " - Asia Pacific" ok to do here? Wasn't sure if *any* text was ok to be inside the time tags. I found a lot of info on the datetime attribute, but not if the above type of thing is allowed or not. Thanks
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