<address>: The Contact Address element
Baseline Widely available
This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since July 2015.
The<address>HTML element indicates that the enclosed HTML provides contact information for a person or people, or for an organization.
Try it
<p>Contact the author of this page:</p><address> <a href="mailto:jim@example.com">jim@example.com</a><br /> <a href="tel:+14155550132">+1 (415) 555‑0132</a></address>a[href^="mailto"]::before { content: "📧 ";}a[href^="tel"]::before { content: "📞 ";}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>.
Attributes
This element only includes theglobal 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.example.com/contact">www.example.com</a>.<br /> If you see any bugs, please <a href="mailto:webmaster@example.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.
Technical summary
| Content categories | Flow content, palpable content. |
|---|---|
| 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 acceptsflow 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 | group |
| Permitted ARIA roles | Any |
| DOM interface | HTMLElement Prior to Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4), Gecko implemented this element using theHTMLSpanElement interface |
Specifications
| Specification |
|---|
| HTML # the-address-element |