Browsers Supported

• Google Chrome 5
• Edge 12
• Firefox 4
• Opera 11.1
• Safari 5

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.