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<footer>

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

Content categories	Flow content, palpable content.
Permitted content	Flow content, but with no `<footer>` or `<header>` descendants.
Tag omission	None, both the starting and ending tag are mandatory.
Permitted parents	Any element that accepts flow content. Note that a `<footer>` element must not be a descendant of an `<address>`, `<header>` or another `<footer>` element.
Implicit ARIA role	contentinfo, or no corresponding role if a descendant of an article, aside, main, nav or section element, or an element with `role=article`, complementary, main, navigation or region
Permitted ARIA roles	`group`, `presentation` or `none`
DOM interface	`HTMLElement`

Attributes

This element only includes the global attributes.

Usage notes

Enclose information about the author in an <address> element that can be included into the <footer> element.
The <footer> element is not sectioning content and therefore doesn't introduce a new section in the outline.

Examples

<footer>
  Some copyright info or perhaps some author
  info for an &lt;article&gt;?
</footer>

Accessibility concerns

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.

Related: WebKit Bugzilla: 146930 – AX: HTML native elements (header, footer, main, aside, nav) should work the same as ARIA landmarks, sometimes they don't

Specifications

Specification	Status	Comment
HTML Living Standard The definition of '<footer>' in that specification.	Living Standard
HTML5 The definition of '<footer>' in that specification.	Recommendation

Browser compatibilityUpdate compatibility data on GitHub

	Desktop
	Chrome	Edge	Firefox	Internet Explorer	Opera	Safari
`footer`	5	12	4	9	11.1	5

	Mobile
	Android webview	Chrome for Android	Firefox for Android	Opera for Android	Safari on iOS	Samsung Internet
`footer`	Yes	Yes	4	11.1	4.2	Yes