Posted by Steve Pugh on 02/01/06 23:28

John Salerno wrote:
> 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>.
>
> 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."

What's the URL of that tutorial? Because I don't know of any W3C HTML 4
tutorial (they did have an HTML 3.2 one If I recall correctly).

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

According to the spec itself, it's wrong unless it's the mailing
address that should be used as contact details for the page on which it
is found.

Steve

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