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#### Thing > Intangible > ListItem

An list item, e.g. a step in a checklist or how-to description.
Usage: Between 1000 and 10,000 domains

Property | Expected Type | Description
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Properties from ListItem
`item` | Thing | An entity represented by an entry in a list or data feed (e.g. an 'artist' in a list of 'artists')’.
`nextItem` | ListItem | A link to the ListItem that follows the current one.
`position` | Integer or Text | The position of an item in a series or sequence of items.
`previousItem` | ListItem | A link to the ListItem that preceeds the current one.
Properties from Thing
`additionalType` | URL | An additional type for the item, typically used for adding more specific types from external vocabularies in microdata syntax. This is a relationship between something and a class that the thing is in. In RDFa syntax, it is better to use the native RDFa syntax - the 'typeof' attribute - for multiple types. Schema.org tools may have only weaker understanding of extra types, in particular those defined externally.
`alternateName` | Text | An alias for the item.
`description` | Text | A description of the item.
`disambiguatingDescription` | Text | A sub property of description. A short description of the item used to disambiguate from other, similar items. Information from other properties (in particular, name) may be necessary for the description to be useful for disambiguation.
`image` | ImageObject or URL | An image of the item. This can be a URL or a fully described ImageObject.
`mainEntityOfPage` | CreativeWork or URL | Indicates a page (or other CreativeWork) for which this thing is the main entity being described. See background notes for details. Inverse property: mainEntity.
`name` | Text | The name of the item.
`potentialAction` | Action | Indicates a potential Action, which describes an idealized action in which this thing would play an 'object' role.
`sameAs` | URL | URL of a reference Web page that unambiguously indicates the item's identity. E.g. the URL of the item's Wikipedia page, Freebase page, or official website.
`url` | URL | URL of the item.

Instances of ListItem may appear as values for the following properties

Property | On Types | Description
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`itemListElement`

ItemList

For itemListElement values, you can use simple strings (e.g. "Peter", "Paul", "Mary"), existing entities, or use ListItem.
Text values are best if the elements in the list are plain strings. Existing entities are best for a simple, unordered list of existing things in your data. ListItem is used with ordered lists when you want to provide additional context about the element in that list or when the same item might be in different places in different lists.
Note: The order of elements in your mark-up is not sufficient for indicating the order or elements. Use ListItem with a 'position' property in such cases.

`nextItem` | ListItem | A link to the ListItem that follows the current one.
`previousItem` | ListItem | A link to the ListItem that preceeds the current one.

Examples
Example 1
Without Markup Microdata RDFa JSON-LD

    <ol>
      <li>
        <a href="https://example.com/dresses">Dresses</a>
      </li>
      <li>
        <a href="https://example.com/dresses/real">Real Dresses</a>
      </li>
    </ol>

    <ol itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/BreadcrumbList">
      <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
          itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
        <a itemprop="item" href="https://example.com/dresses">
        <span itemprop="name">Dresses</span></a>
        <meta itemprop="position" content="1" />
      </li>
      <li itemprop="itemListElement" itemscope
          itemtype="http://schema.org/ListItem">
        <a itemprop="item" href="https://example.com/dresses/real">
        <span itemprop="name">Real Dresses</span></a>
        <meta itemprop="position" content="2" />
      </li>
    </ol>

    <ol vocab="http://schema.org/" typeof="BreadcrumbList">
      <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
        <a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/dresses">
         <span property="name">Dresses</span></a>
         <meta property="position" content="1">
      </li>
      <li property="itemListElement" typeof="ListItem">
        <a property="item" typeof="WebPage" href="https://example.com/dresses/real">
        <span property="name">Real Dresses</span></a>
        <meta property="position" content="2">
      </li>
    </ol>

    <script type="application/ld+json">
    {
     "@context": "http://schema.org",
     "@type": "BreadcrumbList",
     "itemListElement":
     [
      {
       "@type": "ListItem",
       "position": 1,
       "item":
       {
        "@id": "https://example.com/dresses",
        "name": "Dresses"
        }
      },
      {
       "@type": "ListItem",
      "position": 2,
      "item":
       {
         "@id": "https://example.com/dresses/real",
         "name": "Real Dresses"
       }
      }
     ]
    }
    </script>

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