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Does it matter whether my microdata breadcrumb trail starts and ends with <div>, <span> or <li>? Consider <div> tag first:

<div><span itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"> <a href="http://www.example.com/dresses" itemprop="url"> <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span> </a></span> » </div>

And now what if I replace it with <li> or <span> tags? What difference it would make?

I saw this <li> in website's breadcrumbs and it displayed without showing bullet points.

UPDATE: Look what I just found:

<span itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"> <a href="http://www.example.com/" itemprop="url"> <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span> </a> </span> >> <span itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"> <span a href="http://www.example.com/" itemprop="url"></span> <span itemprop="title">Last Page**</span> </a> </span>

Normally last page is not displayed in search results unless it has URL propery. However I was able to make it display in a non-hyperlinked way in green. How is that looked upon by Google?

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    Shame you didn't mention <nav> with <ul> because that's more relevant than all of the ones mentioned ;) I recommend you research about span, p, a, div, section, main, nav, ul and so on. Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 18:32
  • Is it same as SPAN and DIV when it comes to breadcrumbs or it boosts your rankings too? ;) Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 18:36
  • Span, DIV has nothing to do with rankings... Also microdata does not directly improve rankings. Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 18:37
  • That's a whole different question, and since you're using breadcrumbs, what is the point of having that without the url property? Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 18:41
  • @guisasso Seems there is no point of having trail without URL but I just discovered how you can still have it without URL. Commented Mar 28, 2014 at 18:43

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If the code is validated, no.

The following is:

<div itemscope itemtype="http://data-vocabulary.org/Breadcrumb"> <a href="http://www.example.com/" itemprop="url"> <span itemprop="title">Dresses</span> </a> </div>

Gets validated with any of those tags (<span>, <li>, <div>) and many more.

Try it out at http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/richsnippets.

P.S.: Your first <div> tag is closed on your example, which makes it not functional.

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For the Microdata, it does not matter if you use div, span or li.

Using this is invalid, of course (span can’t have the attributes a and href):

<span a href="http://www.example.com/" itemprop="url"></span>

If you want to provide a URL without having a clickable/visible link, use the link element (which can be used in the body if used for Microdata):

<link itemprop="url" href="http://www.example.com/" />
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