Which HTML5 tag should I use to mark up an author’s name?

Question

For example of a blog-post or article.

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09-02-2011
John
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Answer 1

According to the HTML5 spec, you probably want address.

The address element represents the contact information for its nearest article or body element ancestor.

The spec further references address in respect to authors here

Under 4.4.4

Author information associated with an article element (q.v. the address element) does not apply to nested article elements.

Under 4.4.9

Contact information for the author or editor of a section belongs in an address element, possibly itself inside a footer.

All of which makes it seems that address is the best tag for this info.

That said, you could also give your address a rel or class of author.

Jason Gennaro

Read more: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/sections.html#the-address-element