HTML: address Tag

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The address tag is for contact info of the article author or page's owner.

<address>
Contact <a href="http://example.com/author.html">Joe Lee</a>.
</address>

browser shows:

Contact Joe Lee.

The address tag can contain author email or author street address. For example:

<address>
Write to Joe at <a href="mailto:joe@example.com">joe@example.com</a>.
</address>

The main thing is that it marks up a contact info of the article. There's no strict structure of what content inside “address” tag should be. Also, the “address” tag is often conveniently placed inside “header” or “footer” tags. 〔see HTML5 Page Article Tag and Page Structure Tags

🛑 WARNING: the “address” tag should NOT be used for arbitrary address that has nothing to do with the author or page owner.