----------------------------------------------
The ADDRESS element may be used by authors to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element often appears at the beginning or end of a document.
For example, a page at the W3C Web site related to HTML might include the following contact information:
<ADDRESS> <A href="../People/Raggett/">Dave Raggett</A>, <A href="../People/Arnaud/">Arnaud Le Hors</A>, contact persons for the <A href="Activity">W3C HTML Activity</A><BR> $Date: 1999/12/24 23:37:50 $ </ADDRESS> ----------------------------------------------
...and out of curiosity jumping ahead the xhtml2 spec says...
----------------------------------------------
The address element may be used by authors to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document such as a form. This element often appears at the beginning or end of a document.
content model of address element
The content model of the address element should be improved to improve its semantic processability.
Attributes
The Common collection
A collection of other attribute collections, including: Core, Events, I18N, Bi-directional, Edit, Embedding, Map, and Hypertext
Example:
<address href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]">Webmaster</address> ----------------------------------------------
On a "Contact Us" page I'm currently using it like so:
<h3>Tasmania Office</h3>
<ul>
<li>Contact: Errol Flynn</li>
</ul>
<address>
<p>PO Box 123</p>
<p>Hobart TAS 7001</p>
<p>ph.: (03) 6222 1234</p>
<p>fax: (03) 6222 1235</p>
<p>email: <a href="mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]"> [EMAIL PROTECTED]</a></p>
</address>
However, the specs above don't make it fully clear if what I'm doing is wrong or right. The phrase "to supply contact information for a document or a major part of a document" seems to rule out it's most common use on a contact page as strictly speaking that's usually contact info for an organisation.
Surely <address> simply applies as a block element to ANY address, however it then also seems unclear as to how to format the address within that block.
Thanks,
Nick
****************************************************** The discussion list for http://webstandardsgroup.org/
See http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm for some hints on posting to the list & getting help ******************************************************
