What is the proper use of Microdata markup?

Question

I am adding Microdata to my site and would like to know if there is a problem with this markup:

<span class="createdate" itemprop="dateCreated"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> 7-15-2013</span>

Or should I use this:

<span class="createdate"><i class="icon-calendar"></i> <span itemprop="dateCreated">7-15-2013</span></span>

Basically, does Microdata markup must follow the text, and does it have a problem with an icon or span in front of the text?

simple answer , http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippet — Benn, Apr 08 '14 at 10:12

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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The value will be the textContent of the span element with the itemprop.

So I guess both cases would be fine.

Your date format is not correct. See Schema.org’s dateCreated. You must use ISO 8601, i.e., 2013-07-15.
Why not use the time element? Microdata uses the datetime value from its datetime attribute (or element content, if you don’t specify the attribute).
You should not use the i element for icons.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:30

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answered Apr 08 '14 at 11:53

unor

I am using span for icons , since many people here use , I just trow it in so that they would understand what is in the markup. Thhx for the info. And yes I moved to time element for those, but the question was "what if" there is additional markup – Benn Apr 08 '14 at 12:42
Testing markup here , gives you exact info and what you should do/not do google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippet – Benn Apr 08 '14 at 12:43

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