diff --git a/docs/Doxyfile b/docs/Doxyfile
index ce12d81d3..46d6d846d 100644
--- a/docs/Doxyfile
+++ b/docs/Doxyfile
@@ -948,7 +948,7 @@ HTML_HEADER            = $(HTML_HEADER)
 # each generated HTML page. If it is left blank doxygen will generate a 
 # standard footer.
 
-HTML_FOOTER            = 
+HTML_FOOTER            = $(HTML_FOOTER)
 
 # The HTML_STYLESHEET tag can be used to specify a user-defined cascading 
 # style sheet that is used by each HTML page. It can be used to 
diff --git a/docs/Makefile b/docs/Makefile
index 356b2ce54..5104d81c2 100644
--- a/docs/Makefile
+++ b/docs/Makefile
@@ -8,7 +8,6 @@ html: $(HEADERS) Doxyfile
 
 jd: $(HEADERS) Doxyfile header.jd
 	mkdir -p jd
-	HTML_HEADER=header.jd HTML_OUTPUT=jd doxygen
-	for file in jd/*.html; do mv "$${file}" "$${file/\.html/\.jd}"; done
+	HTML_HEADER=header.jd HTML_FOOTER=footer.jd HTML_OUTPUT=jd doxygen
+	for file in jd/*.html; do mv "$${file}" "$${file/.html/.jd}"; done
 	rm -f jd/index.jd
-
diff --git a/docs/footer.jd b/docs/footer.jd
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e69de29bb