ADDRESS - Contact Information

The ADDRESS element provides contact information for a document or part of a document. Information provided by ADDRESS may include the names of the document's maintainers, links to the maintainers' Web pages, e-mail addresses for feedback, postal addresses, phone numbers, and so on. The ADDRESS element is not appropriate for all postal and e-mail addresses; it should be reserved for providing such information about the contact people for the document.

The following example, most appropriate at the end of a document, gives contact information about the maintainer:

<ADDRESS>Maintained by <A HREF="/%7Eliam/">Liam Quinn</A>
&lt;<A HREF="mailto:liam@htmlhelp.com">liam@htmlhelp.com</A>&gt;</ADDRESS>

ADDRESS can also be used to provide contact information for a portion of a document, typically a form. The next example gives users contact information to use in conjunction with an order form:

<FORM METHOD=post ACTION="/cgi-bin/order.cgi">

  <FIELDSET>
    <LEGEND ACCESSKEY=C>Credit Card Information<BR></LEGEND>
    <P>
      <LABEL ACCESSKEY=V>
        <INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=card VALUE=visa> Visa
      </LABEL>
      <LABEL ACCESSKEY=M>
        <INPUT TYPE=radio NAME=card VALUE=mc> MasterCard
      </LABEL>
      <BR>
      <LABEL ACCESSKEY=N>
        Number: <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=number>
      </LABEL>
      <LABEL ACCESSKEY=E>
        Expiry: <INPUT TYPE=text NAME=expiry>
      </LABEL>
    </P>
  </FIELDSET>

  <P>
    <INPUT TYPE=submit VALUE="Submit order" ACCESSKEY=S>
  </P>

  <ADDRESS>
    If you have any questions about ordering, contact us at
    <A HREF="mailto:orders@example.com">orders@example.com</A>,
    or phone our offices at 555-5555.
  </ADDRESS>

</FORM>

More Information

• ADDRESS in W3C HTML 4.0 Recommendation
• ADDRESS in W3C HTML 3.2 Recommendation
• ADDRESS in HTML 2.0 Standard
• ADDRESS in WDG HTML 3.2 Reference
• ADDRESS in Learning HTML 3.2 by Examples

Copyright © 1998 by Liam Quinn. This material may be distributed only subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the Open Publication License, v1.0 or later (the latest version is presently available at http://www.opencontent.org/openpub/).