[Mike Riley]

Hi, I see how to add copyright text using custom CSS, but from what I understand the current year can’t be dynamically updated and that would be something a customizable html would do, but I don’t see that in themes and I saw nothing in downloadable plugins that would do that. If anyone has done this, could you tell me how it’s done please? I’m a systems admin and not much of a web coding guru to say the least. 

 

Here’s what I did in Custom CSS. Disabled the OS Ticket logos and added this copyright:

#footer #osticket a,
#footer #ostawesome a {
display: none !important;
}

#footer:after {
content: “Copyright © 2006-2026 Our Company Name. All rights reserved.”;
display: block;
text-align: center;
font-size: 14px;
margin-top: 10px;
color: #777;
}

So basically achieve the above but 2026 gets automatically updated to 2027 next year and so forth. 

Thanks. 

[stevland]

You’re right that CSS content can’t pull in dynamic values like the current year. But osTicket Awesome includes a file specifically for custom JavaScript: osta/js/user-scripts.js

Keep your existing CSS to hide the default footer links, then add this snippet to user-scripts.js:

javascriptdocument.addEventListener('DOMContentLoaded', function() {
var footer = document.getElementById('footer');
if (footer) {
var copy = document.createElement('div');
copy.style.textAlign = 'center';
copy.style.fontSize = '14px';
copy.style.marginTop = '10px';
copy.style.color = '#777';
copy.textContent = 'Copyright \u00A9 2006-' + new Date().getFullYear() + ' Our Company Name. All rights reserved.';
footer.appendChild(copy);
}
});

Then remove the #footer:after rule from your Custom CSS since the JS handles that part now. Keep the rule that hides the default links.

The year will update automatically every January 1st.

[Mike Riley]

Thank you very much for you help. I’ll do that 🙂