<address> Tag Examples
Examples of the address tag in HTML 5
<address> tag with a hypertext link
<address> <a href="/users/John.Doe/">View John Doe's profile</a> </address>
<address> tag with a mailto: link
<body>
<p>By <address>
<a href="mailto:John.Doe@ExampleOnly.com">John Doe (contact the author)</a>
</address></p>
...
</body>
<article>
<h2>April Fools!<h2>
<p>Published: Friday, April 1, 2011<br/>
By: <address>
<a href="mailto:John Doe <John.Doe@ExampleOnly.com>">John Doe (contact the author)</a>
</address>
</p>
<p>Today's blog entry is an April Fool's Day joke....</p>
</article>
The value of the <a href> attribute starts with the mailto scheme followed by a semicolon (:). The "To" address follows it and can be coded as:
- the e-mail address
- a display name, which may include special characters if enclosed in quotes (
"), which must be encoded as"in an attribute value, and the e-mail address enclosed in angle brackets (<...>), which must be encoded with the HTML character entities<and>.