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

Question

For example of a blog-post or article.

<article>
<h1>header<h1>
<time>09-02-2011</time>
<author>John</author>
My article....
</article>

The author tag doesn't exist though... So what is the commonly used HTML5 tag for authors? Thanks.

(If there isn't, shouldn't there be one?)

Answer 1

You can use

<meta name="author" content="John Doe">

in the header as per the HTML5 specification.

Answer 2

If only for Google SEO, The valid answer as of 2020 is using the so called Structured Data.

More at :https://developers.google.com/search/docs/guides/intro-structured-data

Answer 3

HTML5 has an author link type:

<a href="http://johnsplace.com" rel="author">John</a>

The weakness here is that it needs to be on some sort of link, but if you have that there's a long discussion of alternatives here. If you don't have a link, then just use a class attribute, that's what it's for:

<span class="author">John</span>