Closing div elements in the functions.php properly

I’m editing my child theme’s functions.php page to put in another div element and edited the “themeauthor” class element, but I’m unsure if I’m doing this correctly. I don’t know if the HTML syntax doesn’t render properly if the code stays the way the same at the moment:

if (!function_exists(‘skeleton_before_footer’)) {
function skeleton_before_footer() {

echo ‘<div class=”clear”></div><div id=”footer” class=”‘.$class.’ sixteen columns”>’;
echo “</div><!–/#footer–>”.”\n”;
echo “</div><!–/#wrap.container–>”.”\n”;
echo “<div id=’home-info’>”.”\n”;
echo “

For More information…

“.”\n”;
echo “</div><!–/#home-info–>”.”\n”;
echo “<div class=’themeauthor’>”.”\n”;
echo “<div class=’left’>© All Rights Reserved.”.”\n”;
echo “<div class=’right’>

• Site Map – Disclaimer / Privacy Policy

“.”\n”;
/* echo ‘<div class=”clear”></div><div id=”footer”>’;
echo “<div class=\”‘.$class.’ sixteen columns container\”>”;*/
echo “</div><!– end footer –>”;
}
add_action(‘skeleton_footer’, ‘skeleton_before_footer’,1);
}

Any thoughts? Thanks.