On 28 May 2007, at 11:34:52, Designer wrote:
I want to put an address on a site, but I'm put off by the
limitations of the <address> tag. (but attracted to the semantic
value).
<address> doesn't have the semantic value you think it has. From HTML
4.01:
"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."
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/global.html#edef-ADDRESS>
It's expressed even more succinctly in the table of elements:
"ADDRESS: information on author"
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/index/elements.html>
So <address> should be used for providing contact information such as
an email address or a link relating to the creator or owner of a
document or part thereof, but not just for any old postal address
that happens to appear on a web site.
Regards,
Nick.
--
Nick Fitzsimons
http://www.nickfitz.co.uk/
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