I am trying to create a sticky footer on a custom WordPress theme. I have looked at many online tutorials with no success.
It does not seem to be working responsively, it sticks, but as soon as I re-size the browser the height increases.
The footer needs to be responsive but also stick to the bottom of the page regardless of content size.
The website in question is:
http://shopexample.co.uk/
Would really appreciate some help on this one.
Thanks :)
The problem is not your footer expanding, it is related to image dimensions and body.
When you resize your browser (smaller), the background-images' size adapts to the viewport's width, not its height. That means that at a certain point, the image doesn't vertically fit the viewport anymore.
Then what is visible is the background-color of your body.custom-background, which is, coincidentally, exactly the same color as your footer's background (background-color: #cccccc;).
You can change the background-color of your body to distinguish it from the footer. You cannot resize the image to full-browser width AND height simultaneously without distortions.
Sticky footers: I noticed your footer & its wrapper are not positioned fixed or relative, which is the common approach for sticky footers. Then position it with the bottom property.
Fixed position:
will stick to bottom
will not scroll
will always be visible
Relative position:
will stick to bottom
will scroll
will only be visible on reaching page bottom
Check the working copy of your fiddle here http://jsfiddle.net/Mohinder/Yj6gu/
Problem was with headerwrap which was not closed where it should be and with body height.
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If I resize browser window (Newest Chrome in my case) so it gets horizontal scrollbar then the header div gets "cut off". In that case scrolling to right reveals some empty space. This is because the main content other then header have fixed width.
But the header div has 100% width and div is a block element by default also so it should stretch by itself to the 100% of the page width. Why it is not doing so? Shouldn't it be the default behavior? And why StackOverflow team didn't fix it?
The problem I found on many pages, including StackOverflow:
So I've been googling, even found a solution for a problem but not satisfactory enough. The solution is to set the min-width property to the width of that 's content. But isn't there a better solution?
I'm searching for a better solution, if any? Also I'm searching for an reasonable explanation why div's default behavior to stretch 100% of the width doesn't apply here?
You see a white space because, somewhere on the page, most likely under the header element, there is an element which is bigger than 100% – that's why you see the horizontal scrollbar.
The header infact is 100%, which means it's shorter than the full width of the document - therefore the white space.
To debug, I usually open the inspector and start from the bottom to the top and delete the sibling of the header, one by one, till I get to the point where everything is no more white space. At that point you know the problem is with the last element you just deleted. Try to look for errors in that particular element.
The "cut-off" div has a width of 100% of the visible area, so everything is ok.
The Problem is, that the content is overflowing and you are now able to scroll to the 120% width.
To fix this behavior und stretch your "cut-off" div always over the full width of the page, you can apply some css:
position: absolute;
left: 0;
right: 0;
Inspect the body element and you'll see that it only extends as far as the viewport. The topbar-wrapper is 980px fixed width, and its parent with the black background, topbar, is 100% (of body). topbar also needs a width of 980px, or the body element needs min-width: 980px...here on the StackOverflow site (looks like you found a bug)
This is a problem I often found on builds I was reviewing from freelancers, where they forget to shrink their browser down. The full-width sections usually need min-widths, if the site isn't fluid and there are fixed-width elements.
I have a div sidebar which scrolls with the page on my website. Everytime the window resizes, the sidebar would overlap the page content.
Here is a demo page to show the problem:
http://wrasa.org/memberpage_demo.html
Here is the CSS code for the menubar I'm using for my page
.menubar {width: 200px;position: fixed;left: 20px;down: 200px;}
Any suggestions for fixing the problem or using a different code would be welcomed,
Thanks in advance!
As, you are using fixed positioning; div will remain fixed relative to the browser and will overlap if other content shift in the area. This happens because browser don't allocate any space to such divs.
In your problem you be solved by specifying the min-margin to left of main content, which can actually be achieved by min-width css property. just place one more to left of main content with some min width.
You can know more on this from this link
Using a percentage margin in CSS but want a minimum margin in pixels?
I have a page where the main content has a variable height. I want to have a fixed height (about 50px) footer to the very bottom of the page.
I need it to scroll along with the page (so not a fixed position).
A couple scenarios:
If the body content is 300px tall, the window has no scrollbar, the footer would be all the way to the bottom and visible.
If the body content is 900px tall and the window has a scrollbar, the footer would be all the way at the bottom with no space between the footer and the bottom of the window, and not visible unless you scroll to the very bottom.
Is there a way to accomplish this in pure CSS? Trying to stay clear of using JS to handle this.
see the fiddle for code and demo
fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/gLpFJ/
demo: http://jsfiddle.net/gLpFJ/embedded/result/
Note: Please note this http://jsfiddle.net/yp4EH/ is not for the answer it is just for demonstration purpose.
I am giving this for help and for concept purpose This fiddle http://jsfiddle.net/yp4EH/ is not related with this question but based on same situation - sidebar, content, footer at bottom always.
I have a div that is positioned:absolute, this div extends outside the bounds of my site wrapper as it just contains a background image for a slider and doesn't need to be seen all the time. The problem is I cannot work out how to stop this div triggering the scrollbar. I have tried different combinations of overflow and position and cannot work it out.
If you inspect the element with firebug, just place it over the shadow behind the slider and you will see the div in question. You notice the scrollbar kicks in as soon as the browser bounds touches it.
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Can anyone let me know how to stop the scrollbar appearing for the shadow div?
Cheers
Nik
It is the size of the DIV. When I inspect it using Chrome, the CSS shows that the container DIV was set to 520px width and the problematic DIV was set to 733px, so it actually exceeds the 980px width center area. Unless you want the shadow to disappear, I suggest moving it a bit to the left and make the div left to it smaller.
You can use the CSS overflow-x:hidden on the body element.
Other more complicated way that comes to mind is using jQuery to detect the size of the window and resize the problematic div according to the window's size.
Firstly, thanks to those that commented.
I have come up with a solution that allows me to keep the layout the same while still adhering to the document width. What I did was create a #wrap2 inside the main wrapper which has a width of 100% (full width of browser window).
#wrap2 {background: url(../css_img/slider-bg.png) no-repeat center 317px; }
The trick to this was making sure the image position was set to center. This means the image would also remain relative to the content when resizing the browser. The way I made the shadow line up behind the slider was to add blank pixels to the left, so the image ended up being about 1200px wide, this pushed shadow part right. Because it's all blank pixels it only added about 1kb. If someone thinks there is a better solution let me know.
I'm having trouble getting my footer to stick to the bottom of the page. It works in 1024x1280, which is what I'm designing for, but the #content section overlaps the footer and causes white space at the bottom of the window as soon as I test it in 1024x768 and 800x600. I've tried:
Setting the footer position to absolute w/ bottom:0 ;
Using position:fixed, which works, but overlaps the content. I want it to appear after the content.
Adding padding to the container and pulling the footer up with a negative margin
Adding padding to #content and pulling the footer up with a negative margin
Using a horrible hacky #push div set to the same height as the footer
Here's the page that's having the problem.
At this point I'm about ready to throw some Jquery at it and be done, but if there's a CSS way to solve the problem I'm open to suggestions.
Edit: If things look a bit wonky for a moment, it's because I'm adding a plugin to stretch the background image. Pardon the mess!