April 23rd, 2022

Replying to a tweet from @edent

The footer element inside sectioning content can by used for bylines:

A footer typically contains information about its section such as who wrote it…

https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/sections.html#the-footer-element

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Jeremy Keith

No, there’s absolutely nothing in the spec that says a footer needs to go at the bottom. So, yes, you can have a footer immediately follow a header and then have the main content (I’ve used that pattern for bylines). adactio.com/notes/19004

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