This tab allows you to personalize the headers and footers that will appear on every generated web page. Headers and footers are optional. If you do not specify any text, the respective header or footer will not appear.
If you want fancy formatting like centered text and larger font sizes, you must use HTML syntax. Otherwise you may simply enter a sentence or two.
This header and/or footer is applied to all generated family pages and the index pages. The surname pages can have a different header and/or footer.
| Option | Meaning |
| Header | Specify your header text, such as a title. |
| Footer | Specify your footer text, such as a link to your e-mail address. |
The Surname page serves as the main starting point for your family pages. It can have introductory text and a header and footer that are different from the family and index pages.
| Option | Meaning |
| Header | Specify your header text. If you wish to use the same header used on your family and index pages, click Use Family Page Header. |
| Footer | Specify your footer text. If you wish to use the same footer used on your family pages, click Use Family Page Footer. |
Specify any introductory text you want to appear on the first surname page, the first index page, and the first bibliography page.
You might describe what these family pages contain and your progress on your research. You might include your email address and links to particular family pages to help visitors start navigating your family tree.
Titles appear both in the title bar of an Internet browser and at the top of a web page. You should specify both types of titles for your web pages.
You can use a graphic image as a title within a web page, while at the same time using a textual title on the browser's title bar. For example the following title could appear at the top of the Surname page. It uses HTML syntax to specify a graphic image.
| Option | Meaning |
| All Pages | For each type of web page, specify a title in the "Browser Title Bar" column and also a title in the "Top of Page" column. |
| Family Pages | There are additional options for Family page titles. Click "Use Family titles above" to use the Family page titles you specified for "Browser Title Bar" and "Top of Page" above. If you click "Use names of Husband & Wife," GED-GEN will automatically generate a different title for each Family page using the name of the family's husband and/or wife. Click "Use Family titles above plus names of Husband & Wife" to use a combination fixed title, followed by the names of the husband and/or wife. Be sure to include any desired punctuation characters in the "Browser Title Bar" and "Top of Page" fields above. To prevent an exceptionally long title, you may wish to include a line break (<br>) at the end of the "Top of Page" title. By clearing the checkbox next to "Display title at Top of Page," you can omit the title at the top of each Family page. Since a Family page already lists the husband and wife, a title might seem redundant. You must check this box in order to enter a title in the Family "Top of Page" column. Also, a title is generated for the "Browser Title Bar" in all cases. |
Use this tab to enter additional text or source code into most generated web pages. Use this feature with caution. The text is emitted directly, without syntax checking. You might insert additional META tags, scripts, internal CSS definitions, and other objects like XML, XHTML, and DHTML.
For example you could enter a javascript routine that is called by the link to your home page. This assumes you customize your home page link to call your script routine. (See the Labels tab.)
These are the areas in a web page file where you can insert additional code:
/ <!DOCTYPE> | <---before <HTML> | / <HTML> | | <---after <HTML> | | H / <HEAD> | | E | <---after <HEAD> F | H | A | ... I | T | D | <---before </HEAD> L | M | \ </HEAD> E | L | B / <BODY> <---within <BODY> | | O | <---after <BODY> | | D | ... | | Y | <---before </BODY> | | \ </BODY> | | <---before </HTML> | \ </HTML> \ <---after </HTML>
| Tab | Meaning |
| File Block | Enter any text to appear before <HTML> and after </HTML>. This is considered file scope, outside of the HTML document itself. |
| <HTML> Block | Enter any text to appear after <HTML> and before </HTML>, at the start or end of the HTML document. |
| <HEAD> Block | Enter any text to appear after <HEAD> and before </HEAD>, at the start or end of the heading block. |
| <BODY> Block | Enter any text to appear within the <BODY> tag itself and also after <BODY> and before </BODY>, at the start or end of the body block. |
Text is inserted into all generated web pages, except frameset pages. Frameset pages are generated only when you choose to display source citations in a frame window at the bottom of the browser. They provide the framework in which to display the family group sheet page and the footnote page.