HTML footer element

The <footer> HTML element represents a footer for its nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element. A <footer> typically contains information about the author of the section, copyright data or links to related documents.

Enclose information about the author in an <address> element that can be included into the <footer> element. When the nearest ancestor sectioning content or sectioning root element is the body element the footer applies to the whole page. The <footer> element is not sectioning content and therefore doesn’t introduce a new section in the outline.

Prior to the release of Safari 13, the contentinfo landmark role was not properly exposed by VoiceOver. If needing to support legacy Safari browsers, add role=”contentinfo” to the footer element to ensure the landmark will be properly exposed.