Itemscope and itemprop at same level

Question

I have a link that looks like this:

Answer 1

No you don't need another wrapper to do that. You can specify itemprop="url" to the a tag.

This technique called "nested scope"

More about this is available at section 2.2 The basic syntax of this link http://www.w3.org/TR/2011/WD-microdata-20110525/