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address
elementheader
, footer
, or
address
element descendants.HTMLElement
.The address
element represents the
contact information for its nearest article
or
body
element ancestor. If that is the body
element, then the contact information applies to the document
as a whole.
For example, a page at the W3C Web site related to HTML might include the following contact information:
<ADDRESS> <A href="../People/Raggett/">Dave Raggett</A>, <A href="../People/Arnaud/">Arnaud Le Hors</A>, contact persons for the <A href="Activity">W3C HTML Activity</A> </ADDRESS>
The address
element must not be used to represent
arbitrary addresses (e.g. postal addresses), unless those addresses
are in fact the relevant contact information. (The p
element is the appropriate element for marking up postal addresses
in general.)
The address
element must not contain information
other than contact information.
For example, the following is non-conforming use of the
address
element:
<ADDRESS>Last Modified: 1999/12/24 23:37:50</ADDRESS>
Typically, the address
element would be included
along with other information in a footer
element.
The contact information for a node node is a
collection of address
elements defined by the first
applicable entry from the following list:
article
elementbody
elementThe contact information consists of all the
address
elements that have node
as an ancestor and do not have another body
or
article
element ancestor that is a descendant of node.
article
elementbody
elementThe contact information of node is the same
as the contact information of the nearest article
or
body
element ancestor, whichever is nearest.
Document
has a body elementThe contact information of node is the same
as the contact information of the body element of the
Document
.
There is no contact information for node.
User agents may expose the contact information of a node to the user, or use it for other purposes, such as indexing sections based on the sections' contact information.
In this example the footer contains contact information and a copyright notice.
<footer> <address> For more details, contact <a href="mailto:js@example.com">John Smith</a>. </address> <p><small>© copyright 2038 Example Corp.</small></p> </footer>