Page footer

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A page footer or simply footer in typography is that material which is separated from the main body of text and appears at the bottom of a printed page. Word processing programs usually provide for the creation and maintenance of page footers, which are often the same from page to page, with merely small differences in information, such as page number. Footnotes are usually placed in or near the page footer.

Located at the bottom of the page, it usually contains information about the page author or the sponsor. You may also find copyright information and the date the page was last updated.

Text that appears at the bottom of every page in a document.

A design element that prints at the bottom of a page, often showing the publication's name and page number.

Commonly found among websites are copyright notices that are part of the footer.

The text and images at the bottom of a web document that provide information on author/institutional sponsor, revision date, copyright, comments form, and navigational links. Sometimes these links are buttons. The footer is often set off from the rest of the text on the page by a horizontal rule. Footers are not the opposite of headers in web documents. See Header