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.
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>