<address>: The Contact Address element

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

Try it

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

html

<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:webmaster@somedomain.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

Although it renders text with the same default styling as the <i> or <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 (`<hgroup>`, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6), no sectioning content (`<article>`, `<aside>`, `<section>`, `<nav>`), and no `<header>` or `<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	`HTMLElement` Prior to Gecko 2.0 (Firefox 4), Gecko implemented this element using the `HTMLSpanElement` interface

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard # the-address-element

Browser compatibility

	Desktop						Mobile
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari	WebView Android	Chrome Android	Firefox for Android	Opera Android	Safari on IOS	Samsung Internet
`address`	1	12	1	Yes	15	1	4.4	18	4	14	1	1.0