Posted by John Salerno on 02/01/06 21:32

David Dorward wrote:
> John Salerno wrote:
>
>> 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."
>
> Google suggests that you found that on w3schools.com. W3Schools is not, in
> any way, affiliated with the W3C and has numerous errors. They should not
> be considered authoritative.
>
> As previously mentioned, the element specifies contact information for the
> document. That contact information might take the form of a postal address.
>
> So, if I were to write a page and wanted to include my contact details on
> it, then I could use the address element to markup my postal address. On
> the other hand, if I were listing registered charities with interests in
> wildlife, then it would not be an appropriate element to use to provide
> contact details for the RSPCA and RSPB.
>
>
>

Hmm, I'm still a little uncertain. At first I thought you meant it was
for something more technical, like a web pages address (like a URL or
something), but if what I'm doing is putting the contact information for
the website's authors, that would be acceptable?

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