Is rel="canonical" spelled correctly?

Question

HTML

Is there a fundamental difference between

<link href="http://www.site.com.ua/" rel="canonical" />

and

<link rel="canonical" href="http://www.site.com.ua/">

for search engines and for the validity of the code? I have repeatedly encountered this and different CMS generate it in their own way.

Answer 1

1. Your tags are "eaten".
Try this:
It will turn out like this:
2. Regarding the question: no, there is no semantically difference, both options will pass the W3C validator, and search engines will understand both options correctly.