web design Web design encompasses many different skills and disciplines in the production and maintenance of websites. The different areas of web design include web graphic design; user interface design (UI design); authoring, including standardised code a ...

, a footer is the bottom section of a

website A website (also written as a web site) is any web page whose content is identified by a common domain name and is published on at least one web server. Websites are typically dedicated to a particular topic or purpose, such as news, educatio ...

. It is used across many websites around the internet. Footers can contain any type of HTML content, including text, images and links. HTML5 introduced the <footer> element. Common items that are included or linked to from footers are copyright, sitemaps, privacy policies, terms of use, contact details and directions. Infinite scrolling cannot be used in combination with footers, because the footer becomes inaccessible.

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