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What is the most semantic way to display a street address in HTML?

Answer 1

+4 A:

You could use the hCard Microformat to describe your address. The advantage of Microformats is that you can use them in your existing documents to enrich them.

Here’s an example derived from the example from the Microformats wiki:

<address class="vcard">
  <span class="adr">
    <span class="street-address">169 University Avenue</span>
    <span class="locality">Palo Alto</span>,  
    <abbr class="region" title="California">CA</abbr>&nbsp;&nbsp;
    <span class="postal-code">94301</span>
    <span class="country-name">USA</span>
  </span>
</address>

Gumbo 2010-03-01 22:15:36

Thanks for pointing out that divs are not allowed inside the address tag :)

Ally 2010-03-01 22:25:47

See also http://html5doctor.com/the-address-element/

Török Gábor 2010-04-14 15:00:03

Answer 2

+2 A:

you can use RDFa, eg:

<html
    xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
    xmlns:foaf="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/"
    xmlns:address="http://schemas.talis.com/2005/address/schema#"
    xml:lang="fr" lang="fr"
>
 <head>...</head>
 <body>
  <div typeof="foaf:Person" about="http://you.openid.com#me"&gt;
   <span id="name" property="foaf:name">First Name, Last Name</span>
   <address property="address:streetAddress">My Street, My City</address>
  </div>
 </body>
</html>

mathroc 2010-03-01 22:18:27

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