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Web Basics: OU Disclaimer Alternatives

There is an OU Disclaimer added automatically to the bottom of every webpage published on the students.ou.edu server or on the faculty-staff.ou.edu server. You have no control over the layout and look of this disclaimer, and depending on your webpage design, the way the disclaimer is added to the page can be highly disruptive of your design.

There are two methods that you can disable the automatic disclaimer, so that you can then add the text of the disclaimer yourself, placing it on the page where it will not interfere with your design.

Method 1

If you are using an editor like Dreamweaver, you need to open the Code View or View Source tab. Move to the bottom of your document and add the following line at the end, below the closing </html> tag:

<div style="display: none">

Since this <div> tag is never closed, the style will apply to everything after it ... including the OU disclaimer.

Method 2: Mozilla Composer

There are some editors, like Mozilla Composer, that will correct your code and close the <div> element with a closing </div> tag. This is normally a very wise thing for an editor to do, but it works against you in this case. You can still accomplish the same effect by adding the following code near the end of the document, just before the </body> tag:

<script type="text/javascript">
document.write('<div style="display: none;">')
</script>

This simple Javscript is perfectly valid and will work in the Composer editor.

Add Disclaimer Text

Here is the text of the disclaimer that you should include on every page, if you suppress the automatic display of the disclaimer at the bottom of the page:

Disclaimer: The University of Oklahoma explicitly disclaims any legal liability for the contents of this page or information accessible from this page. Web pages are provided as a privilege to OU students to enhance their life long learning experience, and the opinions expressed herein are not necessarily those of the institution or its student body.

Please remember, that it is very important that you include the disclaimer link somewhere else on the page if you suppress the display of the disclaimer at the bottom of the page.