#microformats 2026-09-05

2026-09-05 UTC
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fafau06 trying to add microformats to my web!! but honestly im still a bit confused on what they do exactly lol.... still trying to slowly get at it tho
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fafau06 but anyway, assuming i know nothing about webdev, can't i add two classes in one element?
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fafau06 my `<article>` element already got its own class, but apparently i also need to add `class="e-content"` to mark it up as a content? so now my article tag got two classes...
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fafau06 and when i went to validate using indiewebify, it said that i didn't have e-content yet so im a bit confused
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[capjamesg] fafau06 You can use two classes by separating them with a space, like this: `class="c-1 c-2"`
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[capjamesg] If you do `class="c-1" class="c-2"` this will not work as you expect because you can only use the `class` attribute once.
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[tantek] [capjamesg] ++ and that's always bugged me too. Feels like the HTML parser coukd be more forgiving here, eg by merely appending additional instances of an attribute on an element, perhaps with a space. And then handle any attribute specific error handling on attribute value specific parsing.
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[snarfed] is SGML/HTML itself specified that way? ie when the same attr is set multiple times, the last one overrides any others?
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[tantek] I think one reason that hasn't been done is that in SGML and HTML the attribute order doesn't matter for parsing purposes
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[tantek] I’m not sure if it's first or last attribute instance that "wins" [snarfed]. I suspect that may already be specified in the HTML parsing spec
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fafau06 [capjamesg]: ooo okay okay i see!! thankie!
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[capjamesg] No worries! I have run into this too 😄
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[tantek] The HTML validator should help catch such things (doubled attributes)
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Zegnat Is anyone other than me receiving the Dependabot vulnerability alerts for the microformats org, or just me? Either way, I fixed the alerts for the tests repo. Feel free to review, or not and I will just merge it in a few days to shut up the alerts ;) https://github.com/microformats/tests/pull/131
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Loqi [preview] [Zegnat] #131 Fix Dependabot alerts for this repository
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Zegnat Re duplicate attributes: the HTML parsing spec defines the specific "duplicate-attribute" error for it. The behaviour is defined as discarding the duplicates, so first value wins.
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Zegnat jalcine++ for getting rust.microformats.io refresh reviewed, merged, and deployed today <3
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Zegnat Now just waiting for review on Go, release of PHP before I build that refresh, and enough time in my schedule to fix whatever is happening with Ruby.
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