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Footer
<gcds-footer>

Also called: site footer.

The footer is the responsive Government of Canada branded footer landmark.

  • Required on Canada.ca
  • Required on GC sites

Footer component preview

Use the Government of Canada branded footer landmark for a consistent, accessible, and responsive landmark for your site or product.

Coding and accessibility for footers

Choose a display mode using the display property

Use the display property to choose one of the two display modes: compact or full.

Choose the compact display to include:

  1. The footer links band and the Government of Canada wordmark.

Include the full display if you need to include:

  1. The main band with a large selection of Government of Canada corporate links.
  2. The footer links band and the Government of Canada wordmark.

Opt to include the contextual band to add up three specific links for your site.

  • Always maintain the integrity of the Government of Canada wordmark. Do not modify the wordmark in any way.
  • Keep the Canada wordmark, privacy link, and terms and conditions link. The other links are only required on standard pages, otherwise you can remove.

Add optional elements

  • Add content to the contextual band by using both the contextual-heading and contextual-links attributes.
  • Use the contextual-heading attribute to assign heading text and the navigational landmark label of the contextual band.
  • Use the contextual-links attribute to set a maximum of three links in the contextual band. Add support links for your product or service, such as contact details for a program.
  • For the contextual band, set the contextual-links, by passing an object or an object in a string in the following format:
{
“1st link label”: “href”
“2nd link label”: “href”
“3rd link label”: “href”
}
  • For the footer links band, set the sub-links, by passing an object or an object in a string in the following format:
{
“1st link label”: “href”
“2nd link label”: “href”
“3rd link label”: “href”
}

Get your code

Generate an instance of the component you need by selecting its code properties.

  1. Explore by choosing different code values to generate the instance you want.

  2. Get the code and pull it into your environment.

  3. Add any copy you need to the component (like text for a label).

Note: The code builder uses English for all code elements, which follows standard practice.

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2025-04-16