The address element: HeydonWorks

August 13, 2024

One of the older elements in the HTML specification, has never been for marking up arbitrary postal addresses. Instead, it is intended exclusively for identifying the author(s) or maintainer(s) of the web page itself.

Source: The address element: HeydonWorks

As the folks working on microformats at their outset kept rediscovering the seemingly perfect

HTML elements isn’t for addresses–what? So what is it for?

In this fabulous ongoing series Heydon Pickering investigates one HTML element,ent at a time alphabetically–and here’s address.