<footer>
HTML <footer> Tag
The <footer> tag defines the footer of a web page or a section. Usually, it contains copyright information, contact details, navigation links, etc.
You can have several <footer> tags on a web page. For example, you can place a footer inside the <article> tag to store information related to the article (links, footnotes, etc.).
The tag can contain other HTML elements, except for the <footer> and <header> tags.
The <footer> is one of the HTML5 elements.
If the footer contains contact details, you should put it in the <address> tag.
The <footer> element can contain the following:
copyright, authorship and contact information
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Syntax
Syntax
The <footer> tag comes in pairs. The content is written between the opening (<footer>) and closing (</footer>) tags.
Example of the HTML <footer> tag:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Title of the document</title>
<style>
.header {
height: 40px;
padding: 20px 20px 0;
background: #e1e1e1;
}
.main-content {
height: 60vh;
padding: 20px;
}
footer {
padding: 10px 20px;
background: #666;
color: white;
}
a {
color: #00aaff;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="header">Header / Menu</div>
<div class="main-content">
<h1>Main content</h1>
<p>This is some paragraph. </p>
</div>
<footer>
<p>Company © w3cdoc. All rights reserved.</p>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
Result
Attributes
Attributes
The <footer> tag supports the Global Attributes and the Event Attributes.
How to style <footer> tag? Common properties to alter the visual weight/emphasis/size of text in <footer> tag:
CSS font-style property sets the style of the font. normal | italic | oblique | initial | inherit. CSS font-family property specifies a prioritized list of one or more font family names and/or generic family names for the selected element. CSS font-size property sets the size of the font. CSS font-weight property defines whether the font should be bold or thick. CSS text-transform property controls text case and capitalization. CSS text-decoration property specifies the decoration added to text, and is a shorthand property for text-decoration-line, text-decoration-color, text-decoration-style.
Coloring text in <footer> tag:
CSS color property describes the color of the text content and text decorations. CSS background-color property sets the background color of an element.
Text layout styles for <footer> tag:
CSS text-indent property specifies the indentation of the first line in a text block. CSS text-overflow property specifies how overflowed content that is not displayed should be signalled to the user. CSS white-space property specifies how white-space inside an element is handled. CSS word-break property specifies where the lines should be broken.
Other properties worth looking at for <footer> tag:
CSS text-shadow property adds shadow to text. CSS text-align-last property sets the alignment of the last line of the text. CSS line-height property specifies the height of a line. CSS letter-spacing property defines the spaces between letters/characters in a text. CSS word-spacing property sets the spacing between words.