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Microformats Cheat Sheet

Posted September 9, 2006 in Cheat Sheets

Note: It turns out there is actually already a rather nice Microformats Cheat Sheet available (in PDF), by Brian Suda. That'll teach me to search for other cheat sheets before starting work on mine!

The Microformats cheat sheet is designed to be printed on an A4 sheet of paper and live by a designer or developer's desk, to make life a bit easier. A description of what is on the cheat sheet follows, or if you are impatient, you can go straight to the full size Microformats cheat sheet.

Further information on Microformats and their specifications can be found at microformats.org.

iCalendar and hCalendar

Thumbnail highlighting iCalendar and hCalendar section. iCalendar is a common format for calendar documents on the web, and hCalendar is a microformat based upon the same standard. Essentially, it is a collection of attributes that allow you to identify events contained in an (X)HTML document. This section includes an example of an event in iCalendar and hCalendar formats.

hReview

Thumbnail highlighting hReview section. hReview is a microformat that allows the marking up of reviews within (X)HTML documents. This section contains a sample review marked up with hReview.

vCard and hCard

Thumbnail highlighting vCard and hCard sections. vCard is a commonly used format for sharing contact details for people, and hCard is a microformat allowing you to mark up contact and personal information for people within web pages.

RelLicense and RelTag

Thumbnail highlighting RelLicense and RelTag sections. RelLicense and RelTag allow you to add extra meaning to links within web documents, identifying links to licenses or that are used for tagging purposes.

XFN Format and Values

Thumbnail highlighting XFN Format and Values sections. XFN is a microformat allowing you to identify relationships with people you link to within web documents, whether they are friends, family, co-workers or just people you once met. These sections show an example use of XFN, and a list of the valid values for XFN information.

Dates

Thumbnail highlighting dates section. Microformats use ISO 8601 format dates. This section details the specification, showing examples dates in their respective formats.

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So now that you know what it does, please feel free to print out the Microformats cheat sheet:

And finally, if you like the cheat sheets, and want to say thanks, please consider buying me something from my Amazon Wishlist. Thankyou very much to those who have already hunted it down and sent me something nice - I'm very grateful!

Please note: If you wish to link to the Microformats cheat sheet from elsewhere, please link to this page so others find the description, rather than linking directly to the sheet.

Microformats Cheat Sheet was posted September 9, 2006 in Cheat Sheets and has been tagged with microformats, cheatsheet, reference, pdf, webdev, programming, standards, html, webdesign, hcard, web and xhtml.

23 comments

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Great resource, Dave... thanks!

But you really want Season 2 of Knight Rider?!

Oh Dave... you shouldn't want that, Dave.
Am I to understand that you believe another season of Knight Rider to be superior? :)
The one before the first one.

; )
I need more room on my cube to put this up! :)
I love you... :* keep seeding :)
Excellent Dave, It was a pleasure meeting you at d.construct, thank you for all these cheatsheets.
Are you aware that a cheat sheet already exists?
http://suda.co.uk/projects/microformats/cheatsheet/
Hi Drew. No, I hadn't seen that. It's a great cheat sheet though!
Hi Dave,

Thanks for another great cheat sheet. Very nicely done, as usual. I'll take the PDF version, please!
akira
Russian Federation #10: September 14, 2006
I love www.ilovejackdaniels.com :)) thx
Use PNGOut before posting PNG files!
Martin Melcher
Germany #12: October 15, 2006
There are no seeds for the torrent.
Didn’t know very much about Microformats up till know,
so thanx for these useful cheats.
Very useful for me!!! Thank you bro!
Thanks very much! I just downloaded all of them. Great job!!!
great collection.
thanks for sharing.
Vey useful. Makes it a lot easier to remember all the different formats.
Michael Bulgarien
United Kingdom #18: January 30, 2008
Thank you very much for the cheet sheet. It is a great collection and helps a lot.
Stumbled across this.. not familiar with microformats. This will help as I dive further into it.
Very usefull hoby Dave, thanks!
Hi Dave!

I like your cheat sheets very much, they've got a their static place on the wall behind my 22" TFT! :)

I read that your cheat sheets consume much bandwidth - as I have bandwidth in masses here on my server, I would be happy to provide a german mirror of your cheatsheets :)

You could place the link to the mirror then on your website and tell them to download there first..

That would be my way to thank you for your cheat sheets.. :)

Mail me at:
mm (at) mpathy (dot) de

PS, if you got the time, cheatsheets for (just ideas!):
* Python (or call it the "better" Ruby..)
* Django (or call it the "far better" Ruby on Rails..)
* Mercurial or Subversion - Version Control Cheatsheet
* a more AJAX-focused JavaScript cheatsheets
The section titled "XFN Format" has several instances of the same error. There is no need, nor is it desirable for there to be commas in a rel value. Please correct that as one person already has been misled by that section of this cheatsheet.

http://rbach.priv.at/Microformats/IRC/2008-03-19#T074213
Nice piece. Microformats offer a very neat solution to a whole range of practical problems. I reckon they’re a good step towards moving from a Web of Documents to a more general Web of Data. The coolest bit being that they’re not inventing whole new formats for things that can already be done: simple descriptions, lists, hierarchies etc. XHTML can cover all of these nicely.

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