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<address>: The Contact Address element

Reference

The HTML <address> 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 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>.

Attributes

This element only supports the global attributes.

Usage notes

  • To represent an arbitrary address, one that is not related to the contact information, use a <p> element rather than the <address> element.
  • 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.

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.

HTML

<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>

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