: The Contact Address element

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The <address> HTML element indicates that the enclosed HTML provides contact information for a person or people, or for an organization.

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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 {{HTMLElement("article")}} .

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 {{HTMLElement("article")}} or {{HTMLElement("body")}} element ancestor.
This element should not contain more information than the contact information, like a publication date (which belongs in a {{HTMLElement("time")}} element).
Typically an <address> element can be placed inside the {{HTMLElement("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

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Although it renders text with the same default styling as the {{HTMLElement("i")}} or {{HTMLElement("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 (`{{HTMLElement("hgroup")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h1")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h2")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h3")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h4")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h5")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h6")}}` ), no sectioning content (`{{HTMLElement("article")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("aside")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("section")}}` , `{{HTMLElement("nav")}}` ), and no `{{HTMLElement("header")}}` or `{{HTMLElement("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	`group`
Permitted ARIA roles	Any
DOM interface	`{{domxref("HTMLElement")}}` Prior to Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4), Gecko implemented this element using the `{{domxref("HTMLSpanElement")}}` interface

Specifications

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Browser compatibility

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