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title: '<address>: The Contact Address element'
slug: Web/HTML/Element/address
page-type: html-element
browser-compat: html.elements.address

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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.somedomain.com/contact"> www.somedomain.com</a>.<br />
  If you see any bugs, please
  <a href="mailto:[email protected]"> 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	{{no_tag_omission}}
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	{{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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See also

• Others section-related elements: {{HTMLElement("body")}}, {{HTMLElement("nav")}}, {{HTMLElement("article")}}, {{HTMLElement("aside")}}, {{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h1")}}, {{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h2")}}, {{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h3")}}, {{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h4")}}, {{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h5")}}, {{HTMLElement("Heading_Elements", "h6")}}, {{HTMLElement("hgroup")}}, {{HTMLElement("footer")}}, {{HTMLElement("section")}}, {{HTMLElement("header")}};

• Sections and outlines of an HTML document.