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Open your page1.html file in Notepad. Save it as page8.html. Now open it in your Browser, to watch the changes as you change your code during the lesson.

A worthwhile feature of web pages is a "footer" at the bottom of a page that provides information about the author and the document, maybe the last date it was modified, as well as a means to send the author a message by e-mail.

This is the place for the address tag which just stylizes a block of text in italic and offsets it to a new line.

It is a good idea to make footers brief, informative, and consistent between your different web pages. Some useful information to include is:

  • Title or subject of the current page
  • Date it was created/updated
  • Copyright if appropriate (or even meaningful?)
  • Name and e-mail for the web page author
  • Name and hypertext link to affiliation/organization

As examples, see the footers at the bottom of every web page in this tutorial. In composing your own style, take a look at other web pages for ideas. Imitation still is a very high form of flattery!

The HTML format for the address tag looks like: 


    <address>
      text text text text text text text text text 
      text text text text text text text text text 
    </address>
Note that all other HTML inside the address tag is legal, so we might modify it with bold tags, line breaks, and a hypertext link tag:

HTML Result 
<address>
<b>Page Title</b><br>
Last Updated February 31, 1999<br>
Web Page by Santa 
([email protected]) <br>
<a href="http://www.north.pole.org/">
North pole Workshop</a><br>
</address>
Page Title
Last Updated February 31, 1999
Web Page by Santa ([email protected])
North pole Workshop

Now, suppose someone was reading your page and wanted to send you a comment on how nice your page looked. They would have to write down your e-mail address, launch another program, and send you a message. Wouldn't it be great if you could send email from your Web browser? Well, most web browsers now can!

The way to do this is to create a hypertext link with the mailto type in the URL. Create an email hypertext link like this: 


    <a href="mailto:[email protected]">send an e-mail to Santa</a>
When the text send an e-mail to Santa is clicked, the web browser will bring up a screen where you can compose a message and send it to Santa.
send an e-mail to Santa

Danger! Do not put your email plainly as shown. Use a system to hide it, such as 


    <a href="mailto:email-santa at north.pole.org">send an e-mail to Santa</a>
So humans will see the email address needs to be corrected by removing the 'email-' and changing the 'at' to @


Extra stuff you may like to know

the HTML Commands for a refresher,

Home or Site pages,
Back to Introduction, 2 Body text, 3 Body attributes, 4 Text Formatting,
5 Adding images, 6 Lists and lines, 7 Links, 8 Other comments.
Colour the page, using hex numbers,
HEXbcr, HEX test, Complex about colour,
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