HTML Footer Generator
Build the footer of your website from plain lists. Write link columns, contact details, social profiles and legal pages, choose a dark, light or brand-coloured theme, and get semantic HTML and CSS with a live preview. The footer navigation gets its own landmark, contact details go into an <address> element and the layout wraps from several columns to one without media queries.
- Runs in your browser
- No sign-up
- Free to use
How to use HTML Footer Generator
- Enter the brand, a short description and contact details.
- Write link columns: a heading line, then Label | URL lines.
- Add social and legal links and the copyright holder.
- Choose a theme and copy the HTML and CSS.
HTML Footer Generator features
Link columns
Any number of columns from a simple text format.
Contact block
Address, mailto: and tel: links in an <address> element.
Landmarks
<footer> and a separate <nav aria-label="Footer">.
Copyright
Year range from your founding year to the current year.
Themes
Dark, light or brand colour, with contrast checks.
Responsive
Flexbox and auto-fit grid: no breakpoints to maintain.
When to use HTML Footer Generator
- Company and agency websites.
- Online shops with help and legal pages.
- Portfolios with a simple one-line footer.
- SaaS sites with product and developer links.
HTML Footer Generator FAQ
What format do the columns use?
Each column starts with its heading on its own line, followed by Label | URL lines. Leave an empty line between columns.
Should column titles be headings?
Headings help screen reader users jump between columns. If the footer repeats on every page and you want a cleaner heading outline, choose <p> instead.
Why an <address> element?
It marks contact information for the page or organisation. Email and phone numbers become mailto: and tel: links that open the mail app or dialler.
Why rel="me" on social links?
It tells services such as Mastodon that the profile and the website belong together, which allows verified profile links.
How do I keep the year current?
The generated year is fixed. Render it on the server, for example with date('Y') in PHP, or update it each January.
Is anything uploaded?
No. The footer is generated in your browser.
Building a useful website footer
Visitors scroll to the footer when they cannot find something: a contact address, opening hours, returns information, the privacy policy or a job page. A good footer answers those questions quickly and gives search engines a clear set of links to the important pages, without becoming a dump of every URL on the site.
The generator turns a few lines of text into a footer with clear structure. The brand and description come first, followed by contact details in an <address> element. Link columns live in a <nav> labelled “Footer”, separate from the main navigation, so assistive technology users can jump directly to it.
The bottom bar holds the copyright line, social profiles and legal links such as privacy policy, terms and imprint. Social links carry rel="me". Phone numbers are cleaned into valid tel: links, and email addresses and links are validated, so a stray javascript: URL never ends up in your markup.
The layout uses flexbox for the main areas and an auto-fit grid for the columns. On a wide screen the description sits next to three or four columns; on a phone everything stacks into a single readable column. Font sizes, spacing and the divider line are kept modest so the footer stays secondary to the page content.
Each theme is checked for contrast, because footers often use small grey text on dark backgrounds that fails WCAG. Links get a visible hover underline and a focus outline in the accent colour, and an optional “Back to top” link helps on long pages.