It is used to define data that is only readable by machine or robots. The value enclosed by the tag is in human readable form. The data can be manipulated using javascript or data processors.
When the associated data is related to times or dates, the time element should be used instead.
value
represents the machine-readable translation of the content
- text in machine-readable format
HTML data Example:
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HTML data tags are used to store information about a website on a web page. They are like folders in a file system, and each tag stores a different type of information.
An HTML data tag looks like this: <data>
This is the opening tag for an HTML data tag, and it tells the web browser what kind of data tag it is looking at.