Browsers Supported
- Google Chrome 5
- Edge 12
- Firefox 4
- Opera 11.1
- Safari 5
HTML5 Tag
The <footer> tag in HTML is used to define the footer of an HTML document. This section contains the footer information (author information, copyright information, carriers, etc). The contact details contained within a website’s footer should be enclosed within an <address> tag and this tag is used within the body tag and this tag is new in HTML5.
The footer elements require a start tag as well as an end tag. The <footer>
tag also supports the Global Attributes and Event Attributes in HTML. Try to place details regarding the author within an <address> tag, which can be inserted into the <footer> element.
A footer element also contains authorship information, copyright information, contact information, sitemap, back-to-top links, related documents, etc.