We are using RDFa format to display the breadcrumb using the examples provided by BreadcrumbList
. When we insert the following example into Google's Structured Data Testing Tool, we get the following errors.
Setup:
item
s in the BreadcrumbList
.item
in the breadcrumb is displayed in plain text.What is the correct format for the last item
when using RDFa format?
<ol vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="BreadcrumbList">
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/dresses">
<span property="name">Dresses</span></a>
<meta property="position" content="1">
</li>
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/foo-bar">
<span property="name">foo-bar</span></a>
<meta property="position" content="2">
</li>
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<span property="name">Real Dresses</span>
<meta property="position" content="3">
</li>
</ol>
Error Message for the last item using code from above:
A value for the item field is required.
<ol vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="BreadcrumbList">
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/dresses">
<span property="name">Dresses</span></a>
<meta property="position" content="1">
</li>
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/foo-bar">
<span property="name">foo-bar</span></a>
<meta property="position" content="2">
</li>
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<div property="item">
<span property="name">Real Dresses</span>
</div>
<meta property="position" content="3">
</li>
</ol>
Error Message when using <div property="item">
from above:
The value provided for item.id must be a valid URL.
The last item (for the current page) still represents a web page, even if you don’t want to show a hyperlink.
So, simply add typeof="WebPage"
to the div
of the last item:
<div property="item" typeof="WebPage">
You could still provide the last item’s URI (without showing it) by using the resource
attribute:
<div property="item" typeof="WebPage" resource="https://example.com/real-dresses">
This results in:
<ol vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="BreadcrumbList">
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/dresses">
<span property="name">Dresses</span></a>
<meta property="position" content="1">
</li>
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/foo-bar">
<span property="name">foo-bar</span></a>
<meta property="position" content="2">
</li>
<li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
<div property="item" typeof="WebPage" resource="https://example.com/real-dresses">
<span property="name">Real Dresses</span>
</div>
<meta property="position" content="3">
</li>
</ol>