---
title: <data>
slug: Web/HTML/Element/data
translation_of: Web/HTML/Element/data
---
<div>{{HTMLRef}}</div>

<p>The <strong>HTML <code>&lt;data&gt;</code> element</strong> links a given content with a machine-readable translation. If the content is time- or date-related, the {{HTMLElement("time")}} element must be used.</p>

<div>{{EmbedInteractiveExample("pages/tabbed/data.html", "tabbed-standard")}}</div>

<p class="hidden">The source for this interactive example is stored in a GitHub repository. If you'd like to contribute to the interactive examples project, please clone <a href="https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples">https://github.com/mdn/interactive-examples </a> and send us a pull request.</p>

<table class="properties">
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row"><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories">Content categories</a></th>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Flow_content">Flow content</a>, <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content">phrasing content</a>, palpable content.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Permitted content</th>
   <td><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content">Phrasing content</a>.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Tag omission</th>
   <td>{{no_tag_omission}}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">Permitted parents</th>
   <td>Any element that accepts <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content">phrasing content</a>.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <th scope="row">DOM interface</th>
   <td>{{domxref("HTMLDataElement")}}</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Attributes">Attributes</h2>

<p>This element's attributes include the <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Global_attributes">global attributes</a>.</p>

<dl>
 <dt>{{htmlattrdef("value")}}</dt>
 <dd>This attribute specifies the machine-readable translation of the content of the element.</dd>
</dl>

<h2 id="Example">Example</h2>

<p>The following example displays product names but also associates each name with a product number.</p>

<pre class="brush: html">&lt;p&gt;New Products&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;data value="398"&gt;Mini Ketchup&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;data value="399"&gt;Jumbo Ketchup&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;data value="400"&gt;Mega Jumbo Ketchup&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</pre>

<h2 id="Specifications">Specifications</h2>

<table class="standard-table">
 <thead>
  <tr>
   <th scope="col">Specification</th>
   <th scope="col">Status</th>
   <th scope="col">Comment</th>
  </tr>
 </thead>
 <tbody>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML WHATWG', 'semantics.html#the-data-element', '&lt;data&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td>No change from {{SpecName('HTML5 W3C')}}</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
   <td>{{SpecName('HTML5 W3C', 'text-level-semantics.html#the-data-element', '&lt;data&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML5 W3C')}}</td>
   <td>Initial definition.</td>
  </tr>
 </tbody>
</table>

<h2 id="Browser_compatibility">Browser compatibility</h2>



<p>{{Compat("html.elements.data")}}</p>

<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>

<ul>
 <li>The HTML {{HTMLElement("time")}} element.</li>
</ul>