<address>: The Contact Address element
The <address>
HTML element indicates that the enclosed HTML provides contact information for a person or people, or for an organization.
The contact information provided by an <address>
element's contents can take whatever form is appropriate for the context, and may include any type of contact information that is needed, such as a physical address, URL, email address, phone number, social media handle, geographic coordinates, and so forth. The <address>
element should include the name of the person, people, or organization to which the contact information refers.
<address>
can be used in a variety of contexts, such as providing a business's contact information in the page header, or indicating the author of an article by including an <address>
element within the <article>
.
Content categories | Flow content, palpable content. |
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Permitted content |
Flow content, but with no nested <address> element, no heading
content (<hgroup> , <h1> ,
<h2> , <h3> ,
<h4> , <h5> ,
<h6> ), no sectioning content
(<article> , <aside> ,
<section> , <nav> ), and
no <header> or <footer>
element.
|
Tag omission | None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory. |
Permitted parents |
Any element that accepts
flow content, but always excluding <address> elements (according
to the logical principle of symmetry, if
<address> tag, as a parent, can not have nested
<address> element, then the same
<address> content can not have
<address> tag as its parent).
|
Implicit ARIA role | No corresponding role |
Permitted ARIA roles | Any |
DOM interface |
HTMLElement Prior to Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4),
Gecko implemented this element using the
HTMLSpanElement interface
|
Attributes
This element only includes the global attributes.
Usage notes
- The
<address>
element can only be used to represent the contact information for its nearest<article>
or<body>
element ancestor. - This element should not contain more information than the contact information, like a publication date (which belongs in a
<time>
element). - Typically an
<address>
element can be placed inside the<footer>
element of the current section, if any.
Examples
This example demonstrates the use of <address>
to demarcate the contact information for an article's author.
<address>
You can contact author at <a href="http://www.somedomain.com/contact">
www.somedomain.com</a>.<br>
If you see any bugs, please <a href="mailto:webmaster@somedomain.com">
contact webmaster</a>.<br>
You may also want to visit us:<br>
Mozilla Foundation<br>
331 E Evelyn Ave<br>
Mountain View, CA 94041<br>
USA
</address>
Result
Although it renders text with the same default styling as the <i>
or <em>
elements, it is more appropriate to use <address>
when dealing with contact information, as it conveys additional semantic information.
Specifications
Specification |
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HTML Standard # the-address-element |
Browser compatibility
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