HTML - <address> Tag

The HTML <address> tag is used for the contact information for a person or people or for an organization. It includes the name of the person, people, or organization to which the contact information refers and may include any type of contact information such as a physical address, URL, email address, phone number, social media handle, geographic coordinates, and so on.

The <address> tag can be used in a variety of contexts, including displaying contact information for a company in the page header and identifying the author of an article by inserting an <address> element within the <article>.

This <address> tag only includes the global attributes such as accesskey, class, contenteditable, dir, draggable, and so on.

Syntax

Following is the syntax of the <address> tag −

<address>
   …contents
</address>

Example

In the following example, let’s see the usage of the HTML <address> attributes, as follows −

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
   <address> You can contact author at <a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/contact"> www.tutorialspoint.com</a>. <br /> If you see any bugs, please <a href="mailto:webmaster@tutorialspoint.com"> contact webmaster</a>. <br /> You may also want to visit us: <br /> tutorialspoint PVT LTD <br /> Madhapur Hyderabad <br /> Kaveri hills, zip 500081 <br /> Telangana </address>
</body>
</html>

When we run the above code, it will generate an output consisting of the text indicating the contact address, displayed on the webpage.

Example

Considering the following example, where we are going to use the <address> tag and applying the CSS properties to it.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
   <style>
      address {
         display: block;
         font-style: italic;
         color: blue;
      }
   </style>
</head>
<body>
   <address> You can contact author at <a href="http://www.tutorialspoint.com/contact"> www.tutorialspoint.com</a>. <br /> If you see any bugs, please <a href="mailto:webmaster@tutorialspoint.com"> contact webmaster</a>. <br /> You may also want to visit us: <br /> tutorialspoint PVT LTD <br /> Madhapur Hyderabad <br /> Kaveri hills, zip 500081 <br /> Telangana </address>
</body>
</html>

On running the above code, the output will pop up displaying the text with a applied CSS properties on the webpage.

Example

Let's look into the following example, where we are going to use the <address> tag to give the contact information.

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<body>
   <p>Contact the author of this page:</p>
   <address>
      &#128231;: <a href="tutorialspoint@tutorialspoint.com">xyz@tutorialspoint.com</a>
      <br>
      &#128222;: <a href="tel:+13115552368">(+91) 8899056432</a>
   </address>
</body>
</html>

When we run the above code, it will generate an output consisting of the contact information displayed on the webpage.

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