This repo can be used as a source for the NIST headers and footers that are required for use on public-facing sites. It is recommended that you DO NOT copy these files into your repo, but rather link to them in-place so that you will automatically receive any changes or updates.
EXCEPTION: If you expect high traffic volume or need it to be highly available, and it does not reside on pages.nist.gov, you should copy these files to your site and use the local copy. pages.nist.gov is not highly available.
Otherwise, to use this repo you do NOT have to copy any files; just insert the following into your pages' HEAD section:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://pages.nist.gov/nist-header-footer/css/nist-combined.css">
<script src="https://pages.nist.gov/nist-header-footer/js/nist-header-footer.js" type="text/javascript" defer="defer"></script>
Should you want to increase security, or prevent any future javascript changes from affecting you, you can use the versioned instance of the js file as shown below.
<link rel="stylesheet" href="https://pages.nist.gov/nist-header-footer/css/nist-combined.css">
<script src="https://pages.nist.gov/nist-header-footer/js/nist-header-footer-v-2.0.js" type="text/javascript" defer="defer"></script>
Nothing other than the javascript file nist-header-footer.js. This version does away with the jQuery dependency which is nice. Shout out to Greg Fiumara for doing that work on his own initiative.
If you would like the footer to be pushed to the bottom of the browser window on short pages, add the nist-footer-bottom class to the top level html element. Also make sure to add ID selector #main to content body wrapper.
<html class="nist-footer-bottom">