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HTML Reference
File Footer

At the end of HTML files, you need to include a footer. The footer closes off two of the tags that are in the header, namely the </html> and </body> tags. In addition, before the end tags, I normally include an attribution line - specifying the Author's name, details of how they can be contacted and finally a date showing when the file was last updated!

Most good HTML documents have links at the bottom of the file, to link other parts of the site that is hosting the document. At the Faculty of the Built Environment (UNSW), we include a "toolbar image" which is an imagemap, this toolbar can be used to jump to the major sections of the site.

Listed below is an example footer (the <hr> produces a horizontal line):

<hr>
Web document by Stephen Peter, S.Peter@unsw.edu.au,
last updated 6 Jun 96.
</body>
</html>

Only the last two lines are actually needed - but, in fact, most browsers won't get upset if you leave those tags off!


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Last Updated: 06 November 1998