Copyright Your Website

How to correctly add copyright to your website

When looking through websites online you sometimes come across a minor error on all of them. And specifically, the copyright that is placed at the bottom of them. With our guess, the web developer who completed the website went with the shortcut job and just added the year himself but this can be a problem in the future because you can always see when a website was last checked over because the year in the footer will say something like 2015. This can defiantly make a website look outdated and can always impact how users portray the site.

The Copyright Code solution

HTML:

<footer>
  <p>Copyright: <span id="current-year"></span> © </p>
</footer>

Javascript:

Const year = document.querySelector('#current-year')

year.innerHTML = new Date().getFullYear()

Code Run Down

This solution uses the programming languages HTML and Javascript to automate the task of updating the current year for copyright. The vital points are the ID in the HTML tag which allows Javascript to select that specific element to change the text to the year when loading the web page.

For the Javascript, it firstly selects the HTML tag with its ID and then creates a new date object that holds the current time and date of the user. Then it uses a built-in function to get the year from the date. Once it has got the year it then adds it to the HTML tag.