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The new schema.org by Google, Yahoo and MS recommends usage of the <link> attribute to display the status of products in an online shop:
<div itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Offer"> <span itemprop="name">Blend-O-Matic</span> <span itemprop="price">$19.95</span> <link itemprop="availability" href="http://schema.org/InStock"/>Available today! </div> Yet, according to w3schools.org <link> is only allowed in head sections:
Note: This element goes only in the head section, but it can appear any number of times.
I am not used to W3C style, so I was not able to understand the exact definition by W3C. Can anybody help me: Is it really allowed to use <link> within the body (in HTML5, as schema.org uses HTML5 tags) or do Google, Yahoo and MS break the standard?
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A <link> element can occur either in the <head> or <body> element, depending on whether it has a link type that is body-ok. For example, the stylesheet link type is body-ok, and therefore <link rel="stylesheet"> is permitted in the body.
No, it is not okay to put a link element in the body tag.
The rel is required because it specifies the relationship between the current document and the linked document.
The REL attribute is used to define the relationship between the linked file and the HTML document. REL=StyleSheet specifies a persistent or preferred style while REL="Alternate StyleSheet" defines an alternate style. A persistent style is one that is always applied when style sheets are enabled.
Link is allowed in BODY. I had same problem validating link tag in HTML5 and I solved it with this
<link rel="stylesheet" property="stylesheet" href="css/homepage.css"> Need to have both property and rel tag
UPDATE 2016 (thanks to yuyokk below): There was a change to HTML5 spec recently that allows having links in the body
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