---
title: <data>
slug: Web/HTML/Element/data
translation_of: Web/HTML/Element/data
---
<h2 id="Summary">Summary</h2>
<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")}} must be used.</p>
<ul class="htmlelt">
 <li><dfn><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories" title="HTML/Content_categories">Content categories</a></dfn> <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Flow_content" title="HTML/Content categories#Flow content">Flow content</a>, <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content" title="HTML/Content categories#Phrasing content">phrasing content</a>, palpable content.</li>
 <li><dfn>Permitted content</dfn><a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content" title="HTML/Content categories#Phrasing content">Phrasing content</a>.</li>
 <li><dfn>Tag omission</dfn> {{no_tag_omission}}</li>
 <li><dfn>Permitted parent elements</dfn> Any element that accepts <a href="/en-US/docs/HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content" title="HTML/Content_categories#Phrasing_content">phrasing content</a>.</li>
 <li><dfn>DOM interface</dfn> {{domxref("HTMLDataElement")}}</li>
</ul>
<h2 id="Attributes">Attributes</h2>
<p><span style="line-height: 21px;">This element includes the </span><a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/HTML/Global_attributes" style="line-height: 21px;" title="HTML/Global attributes">global attributes</a><span style="line-height: 21px;">.</span></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 its UPC code.</p>
<pre class="brush: html">&lt;p&gt;New Products&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;data value="3967381398"&gt;Mini Ketchup&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;data value="3967381399"&gt;Jumbo Ketchup&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;&lt;data value="3967381400"&gt;Mega Jumbo Ketchup&lt;/data&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
&lt;/ul&gt;
</pre>
<h2 id="Specifications" name="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', 'text-level-semantics.html#the-data-element', '&lt;data&gt;')}}</td>
   <td>{{Spec2('HTML WHATWG')}}</td>
   <td>No change from {{Spec2('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>{{CompatibilityTable}}</p>
<div id="compat-desktop">
 <table class="compat-table">
  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <th>Feature</th>
    <th>Chrome</th>
    <th>Firefox (Gecko)</th>
    <th>Internet Explorer</th>
    <th>Opera</th>
    <th>Safari</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Basic support</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatGeckoDesktop("22.0")}} {{bug("839371")}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
   </tr>
  </tbody>
 </table>
</div>
<div id="compat-mobile">
 <table class="compat-table">
  <tbody>
   <tr>
    <th>Feature</th>
    <th>Android</th>
    <th>Firefox Mobile (Gecko)</th>
    <th>IE Mobile</th>
    <th>Opera Mobile</th>
    <th>Safari Mobile</th>
   </tr>
   <tr>
    <td>Basic support</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
    <td>{{CompatNo}}</td>
   </tr>
  </tbody>
 </table>
</div>
<h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>
<ul>
 <li>The HTML {{HTMLElement("time")}} element.</li>
</ul>
<p>{{HTMLRef}}</p>