I'm not seeing the usage of address tag around. Is it still relevant using address tag these days? Any proposal to deprecate this arise ever?
I used it a couple months ago
Dave
2009-10-16 12:08:28
+5
A:
It's still there in the upcoming HTML5 spec:
The
address
element represents the contact information for its nearest article or body element ancestor. If that is thebody
element, then the contact information applies to the document as a whole.
...
Theaddress
element must not be used to represent arbitrary addresses (e.g. postal addresses), unless those addresses are in fact the relevant contact information. (Thep
element is the appropriate element for marking up postal addresses in general.)
Theaddress
element must not contain information other than contact information.
You're right, it isn't used often, but it should be. I think earlier versions of IE had problems styling it so perhaps that's why it never took off?
DisgruntledGoat
2009-10-16 12:06:08
IE7 still always tries to style it as italic, and you have to explicitly put an address { font-style: normal; } in your CSS.
Keith Williams
2009-10-16 12:52:41