Posted by John Salerno on 02/01/06 19:46

Steve Pugh wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>> Chris Beall wrote:
>>
>>> You could consider using <address>, which is semantically what you seem
>>> to have. See http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/global.html#edef-ADDRESS.
>>>
>>> You'll probably need to insert <br> as appropriate to get the usual
>>> mail-address format.
>> Wow, thanks. I didn't know about this element, but it's perfect!
>
> Read the spec carefully. <address> is only to be used for the contact
> details related to the page itself. Any other addresses on the page
> must not be marked up with <address>.
>
> Steve
>

Hmmm...I was reading on W3C's tutorials about it, and it said this:

"The <address> tag defines the start of an address. You should use it to
define addresses, signatures, or authorships of documents."

The example it gives is even a regular mailing address. Is that wrong?

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