Footer Control
See also: Styling Assistants, Introduction to Styling, Controls, Layouts
A Footer Control is a simple container control that is rendered using a <footer> HTML tag. Its primary purpose is to act as a container for other controls which can be laid out according to the selected layout – click here for a general discussion on container controls and layouts.
A Footer Control is functionally identical to a Panel Control and inherits all its properties and behaviour. The only difference is that it uses <footer> instead of <div> as the enclosing HTML tag.
A Footer Control is a landmark control that should normally be used to contain static information about an organisation e.g. privacy and copyright statements, contact details etc. See Designing Accessible Applications for more information.