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+  information about its section such as who wrote it, links to related
+  documents, copyright data, and the like.</p><p class="note">Contact information belongs in an
   <code><a href="#the-address-element">address</a></code> element, possibly itself inside a
-  <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>.</p><p>Footers don't necessarily have to appear at the end of a section,
+  <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code>.</p><p>Footers don't necessarily have to appear at the <em>end</em> of a section,
   though they usually do.</p><p>When the <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element contains entire sections,
   they <a href="the-xhtml-syntax.html#represents" title="represents">represent</a> appendices, indexes,
   long colophons, verbose license agreements, and other such
   content.</p><p class="note">The <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element is not
   <a href="dom.html#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a>; it doesn't introduce a new
-  section.</p><div class="example">
+  section.</p><p>When the nearest ancestor <a href="dom.html#sectioning-content">sectioning content</a> or
+  <a href="#sectioning-root">sectioning root</a> element is <a href="dom.html#the-body-element">the body
+  element</a>, then it applies to the whole page.</p><div class="example">
 
    <p>Here is a page with two footers, one at the top and one at the
    bottom, with the same content:</p>
@@ -3212,6 +3215,46 @@
  &lt;footer&gt;&lt;a href="../"&gt;Back to index...&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/footer&gt;
 &lt;/body&gt;</pre>
 
+  </div><div class="example">
+
+   <p>Here is an example which shows the <code><a href="#the-footer-element">footer</a></code> element
+   being used both for a site-wide footer and for a section
+   footer.</p>
+
+   <pre>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML&gt;
+&lt;HTML&gt;&lt;HEAD&gt;
+&lt;TITLE&gt;The Ramblings of a Scientist&lt;/TITLE&gt;
+&lt;BODY&gt;
+&lt;H1&gt;The Ramblings of a Scientist&lt;/H1&gt;
+&lt;ARTICLE&gt;
+ &lt;H1&gt;Episode 15&lt;/H1&gt;
+ &lt;VIDEO SRC="/fm/015.ogv" CONTROLS AUTOBUFFER&gt;
+  &lt;P&gt;&lt;A HREF="/fm/015.ogv"&gt;Download video&lt;/A&gt;.&lt;/P&gt;
+ &lt;/VIDEO&gt;
+ &lt;FOOTER&gt; &lt;!-- footer for article --&gt;
+  &lt;P&gt;Published &lt;TIME PUBDATE DATETIME="2009-10-21T18:26-07:00"&gt;&lt;/TIME&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
+ &lt;/FOOTER&gt;
+&lt;/ARTICLE&gt;
+&lt;ARTICLE&gt;
+ &lt;H1&gt;My Favorite Trains&lt;/H1&gt;
+ &lt;P&gt;I love my trains. My favorite train of all time is a K&#246;f.&lt;/P&gt;
+ &lt;P&gt;It is fun to see them pull some coal cars because they look so
+ dwarfed in comparison.&lt;/P&gt;
+ &lt;FOOTER&gt; &lt;!-- footer for article --&gt;
+  &lt;P&gt;Published &lt;TIME PUBDATE DATETIME="2009-09-15T14:54-07:00"&gt;&lt;/TIME&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
+ &lt;/FOOTER&gt;
+&lt;/ARTICLE&gt;
+&lt;FOOTER&gt; &lt;!-- site wide footer --&gt;
+ &lt;NAV&gt;
+  &lt;P&gt;&lt;A HREF="/credits.html"&gt;Credits&lt;/A&gt; &#8212;
+     &lt;A HREF="/tos.html"&gt;Terms of Service&lt;/A&gt; &#8212;
+     &lt;A HREF="/index.html"&gt;Blog Index&lt;/A&gt;&lt;/P&gt;
+ &lt;/NAV&gt;
+ &lt;P&gt;Copyright &#169; 2009 Gordon Freeman&lt;/P&gt;
+&lt;/FOOTER&gt;
+&lt;/BODY&gt;
+&lt;/HTML&gt;</pre>
+
   </div><h4 id="the-address-element"><span class="secno">4.4.10 </span>The <dfn><code>address</code></dfn> element</h4><p class="XXX annotation"><b>Status: </b><i>Implemented and widely deployed</i></p><dl class="element"><dt>Categories</dt>
    <dd><a href="dom.html#flow-content">Flow content</a>.</dd>
    <dd><a href="editing.html#formatblock-candidate"><code title="">formatBlock</code> candidate</a>.</dd>

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    <a href="editing.html">&#8592; 7 User Interaction</a> &#8211;
    <a href="spec.html#contents">Table of contents</a> &#8211;
    <a href="syntax.html">9 The HTML syntax &#8594;</a>
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     <a href="Overview.html">single page HTML</a>,
     <a href="spec.html">multipage HTML</a>.
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    <p class="copyright"><a href="http://www.w3.org/Consortium/Legal/ipr-notice#Copyright">Copyright</a>
    &#169; 2009 <a href="http://www.w3.org/"><abbr title="World Wide

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    <a href="spec.html#contents">Table of contents</a> &#8211;
    <a href="infrastructure.html">2 Common infrastructure &#8594;</a>
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