I have a page with only a couple of lines of content. I want the footer to be pushed to the bottom.
<div id="footer"></div>
I don't want to use
#footer
{
position:fixed;
bottom:0;
}
AKA Sticky Footer
Is this possible without jQuery?
any suggestions?
This Flexbox solution is neater and far easier to implement:
HTML
<body>
<div class="content">
content
</div>
<footer class="footer"></footer>
</body>
CSS
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content {
flex: 1 0 auto;
}
.footer {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
Just ensure you wrap the necessary divs inside the body.
Update 2021 - CSS GRID
Here is a solution using CSS Grid, this is by far the best way to do it on 2021.
html, body {
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: grid;
grid-gap: 10px;
grid-template-columns: 1fr;
grid-template-areas: "main" "footer";
grid-template-rows: 1fr 80px;
}
main {
background-color: #F8BBD0;
grid-area: main;
}
footer {
background-color: #7E57C2;
grid-area: footer;
}
<body>
<main>The content</main>
<footer>Footer</footer>
</body>
Old Answer
There is another sticky footer by Ryan Fait that doesn't use position fixed:
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important; /* This line and the next line are not necessary unless you need IE6 support */
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -155px; /* the bottom margin is the negative value of the footer's height */
}
.footer, .push {
height: 155px; /* .push must be the same height as .footer */
}
Here is a solution that does not require that the footer be placed outside of the main wrapper element, which is how most people structure their pages.
html,
body {
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
box-sizing: border-box;
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 1em; /* Height of footer */
min-height: 100%;
}
header {
background-color: #cff;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
color: #fff;
background-color: #000;
}
<div class="wrapper">
<header>I am the header.</header>
<article>I am content that doesn't fill the page. The footer will appear at the bottom of the browser window. However, when I do fill the page, you will need to scroll down to see the footer.</article>
<footer>I am the footer.</footer>
</div>
Explanation
The wrapper element will fill 100% of the viewport height. (You could also use 100vh for the wrapper if you don't want to set the height of the html and body elements.) The wrapper also has a bottom padding to create a placeholder for the footer to sit.
The footer is absolutely positioned to the bottom of the wrapper and sits in the placeholder created by the wrapper's bottom padding.
This means that when the page does not have scrollbars, the footer will be positioned at the very bottom. However, when there is enough content for scrollbars to appear, the footer will be pushed down below the content.
(The color and background-color CSS properties in the example are for decoration only, obviously. They are included so that when you run the code, you can clearly see the separated sections.)
Try Sticky Footer Solution by Steve Hatcher
/*
Sticky Footer Solution
by Steve Hatcher
http://stever.ca
http://www.cssstickyfooter.com
*/
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/* must declare 0 margins on everything, also for main layout components use padding, not
vertical margins (top and bottom) to add spacing, else those margins get added to the total height
and your footer gets pushed down a bit more, creating vertical scroll bars in the browser */
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
}
#main {
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 180px;
}
/* must be same height as the footer */
#footer {
position: relative;
margin-top: -180px; /* negative value of footer height */
height: 180px;
clear: both;
}
/*Opera Fix*/
body:before {
/* thanks to Maleika (Kohoutec)*/
content: "";
height: 100%;
float: left;
width: 0;
margin-top: -32767px; /* thank you Erik J - negate effect of float*/
}
/* IMPORTANT
You also need to include this conditional style in the <head> of your HTML file to feed this style to IE 6 and lower and 8 and higher.
<!--[if !IE 7]>
<style type="text/css">
#wrap {display:table;height:100%}
</style>
<![endif]-->
*/
Another way to do this if you don't know the footer size is to use javascript and css
html, body{
height:100%;
height:100%;
}
#footer{
background-color: #292c2f !important;
position:absolute;bottom:0px;
}
and Javascript part
$(document).ready(function(){
if ($(document).height() > $(window).height()) {
$('#footer').css('position', 'relative');
}
});
You can do this with another approach just easily by setting min-height on the tag before your footer tag.
.the-tag-before-footer{
min-height:30%;
}
I tried a lot of approaches, but results were different when page was totally fill or not. The simplest and efficient solution is to use flex.
html, body {height: 100%;}
body {display: flex; flex-direction: column;}
.content {flex: 1 0 auto; padding: 20px;}
.footer {flex-shrink: 0; padding: 20px;}
<div class="content">
<h1>The GOAT Footer with Flexbox</h1>
<p>You can add content to test with a full page</p>
</div>
<footer class="footer">
The GOAT Footer
</footer>
Credits to CSS Trick
First wrap all of your main content in a div element and give it a class of “wrapper” (or call it whatever you want).
HTML:
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<h1>Main Content</h1>
</div>
<footer>
<p>Footer Content</p>
</footer>
</body>
Now, make sure you give your footer a height.
Then use the calc() function to set the height of your wrapper equal to the height of the viewport (display), minus the height of the footer.
.wrapper {
min-height: calc(100vh - 50px);
}
footer {
height: 50px;
}
Now, if you have extra margins on your wrapper content you will have to increase the amount of pixels you subtract from the viewport height to reflect that. Other than that, this is a super easy and quick fix. No javascript needed, and only two CSS rules.
The problem is simple to solve for anyone using Bootstrap 4 or higher, just include this snippet on your website:
<script>
$(document).ready(function(){
if ($('body').height() < $(window).height()) {
$('footer').addClass('position-absolute bottom-0');
} else {
$('footer').addClass('position-static');
}
});
</script>
Here we check if the height of the BODY tag is less than the height of the browser window, if positive we place the footer at the bottom of the page and if negative we make the footer static and it will remain where it is. You don't need to change your current code, you just need to include this javascript in your page or package, remembering that to work the <body> tag must have position: relative, if you haven't changed the tag's "position" property in CSS <body>, you don't need to do anything as it is the default value.
Make sure to include the code after jquery, without jquery it won't work.
If you are not using the <footer> tag, you should change the $('footer') selector as appropriate.
Related
I have a sticky footer that uses the flexbox technique which works perfectly fine and expands when the content fills the page.
I'm now trying to add a conditional, based on a particular user, fixed position bottom navbar. i've applied margin-bottom to the footer which is fine when the content fits within the page however when the content grows i cannot scroll the page to the bottom and view the full footer. It seems the bottom-margin is not applied to the footer when the content grows to fill the page. Any help would be appreciated, example code and Codepen below.
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
/* IE 10-11 didn't like using min-height */
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content {
flex: 1 0 auto; /* Prevent Chrome, Opera, and Safari from letting these items shrink to smaller than their content's default minimum size. */
padding: 20px;
}
.footer {
flex-shrink: 0; /* Prevent Chrome, Opera, and Safari from letting these items shrink to smaller than their content's default minimum size. */
padding: 20px;
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
margin: 0;
font: 16px Sans-Serif;
}
h1 {
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
}
p {
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
}
footer {
background: #42A5F5;
color: white;
margin-bottom: 25px;
height: 50px;
}
.conditionalNav {
position: fixed;
bottom:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
background:green;
color: white;
padding:5px;
hight:25px;
}
</style>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sticky Footer with Flexbox</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<h1>Sticky Footer with Flexbox</h1>
<p><button id="add">Add Content</button></p>
<p>some content</p></div>
<footer class="footer">
Footer
</footer>
<div class="conditionalNav">
Conditional bottom navbar
</div>
</body>
</html>
https://codepen.io/pinman/pen/eYBLYOR
Setting height: 100% on html and body (as opposed to min-height) prevents the document height from exceeding the viewport height, so your additional content is overflowing scrollable area.
You could remove body from the 100%, leaving it on html, or add overflow: auto to the html/body rule so that the body element can scroll (as opposed to scrolling the window).
Edit: removing 100% height from body allows the footer to move off the bottom of the window. Updated accordingly.
html, body {
/* IE 10-11 didn't like using min-height */
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
You also have a typo in your .conditionalNav rule:
hight:25px;
I'm having some issues with creating this effect with CSS:
http://i.stack.imgur.com/sMBmg.jpg
Basically, I want my content div to float on top and slightly overlap both the header and the footer elements. I've played around with some absolute positioning but I'm not sure if that's the best way to go. I want a responsive solution that works for all devices and screen sizes. Any suggestions?
Here is one way you could do it.
If this is your HTML:
<div class="header">Header</div>
<div class="content">Content</div>
<div class="footer">Footer</div>
Apply the following CSS:
.header, .footer {
height: 100px; /* not strictly needed... */
border: 1px solid blue;
}
.content {
width: 50%; /* for example... */
height: 400px;
background-color: yellow;
margin: 0 auto;
border: 1px dotted blue;
}
.header {
margin-bottom: -25px;
}
.footer {
margin-top: -25px;
}
.content {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
}
You can see the demo at: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/CNnay/
You set up three block level elements for the header, content and footer.
Apply negative margins to the bottom of the header and the top of the footer to
create the offset effect.
Finally, apply z-index to .content to tweak the stacking order so that the
content block is painted over the footer block.
In this layout, the content block will expand vertically as you add more content.
The results looks like:
You can try position:fixed or z-index:2000 of your div class
i have created this http://jsfiddle.net/RVnU7/1/
I'm trying to apply this method of the Sticky Footer: http://code.google.com/p/cleanstickyfooter/
It works great, however, I have one problem. The design for my particular site has a 34px margin at the top of the page. So I've tried a few ways of implementing it, either by doing body {margin-top:34px} or doing container {margin-top:34px}.
However, in both cases, the Sticky Footer gets messed up. When I try to compensate for the 34px, it doesn't ever seem to work out.
Any ideas?
Here's a Fiddle example: http://jsfiddle.net/jrZKb/
Using the Modern Clean CSS Sticky Footer, it's working (on FireFox and IE9):
http://jsfiddle.net/jrZKb/1/
<body>
<header> Header</header>
<article>Lorem ipsum...</article>
<footer></footer>
</body>
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0 0 100px; /* bottom = footer height */
}
header
{
background-color: green;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
}
I have a "main-section" div that is set to inherit it's height from its' parent div, which is the "wrapper" div. The wrapper div is set to inherit it's height from its' parent div, which is the body of the document. The html and body tags are set to height: 100%.
So, in order to use the CSS "sticky footer" (found at http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/), I have to set padding-bottom in the "main-section" div equal to the height of the "footer" div (which has to be outside of the wrapper div). Then, the footer div must be given a negative margin-top value equal to the height of the footer as well.
All of this is working in keeping the footer at the bottom of the page, but I am trying to extend the height of the main-section 100% to the footer so that the background-color of the main-section is visible down the entirity of the page.
I am close in doing this, except the main-section is now extending beyond the footer, and stretching the window beyond 100% height (when there is not enough content to exceed the page height), and the backgroung-color is then visible beyond the footer, beyond the height of the page (which is not desirable).
It seems that the necessary parameter of padding-bottom in the main-section div is causing this problem, even though the footer is set to clear: both and position: relative (which does keep the footer at the bottom of the page, but the main-section div is still extending below the footer quite a bit). Or maybe the min-height: 100% attribute of the wrapper could be causing a conflict?
Here is the relevant html:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
...
</div> <!-- end of header -->
<div id="main-section">
...
</div> <!-- end of main section -->
</div> <!-- end of wrapper -->
<div id="footer">
...
</div> <!-- end of footer -->
...and here is the relevant CSS:
*
{
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
html, body
{
height: 100%;
}
body
{
background-color: #bbb;
}
#wrapper
{
/* wrapper 100% of screen */
min-height: 100%;
height: inherit;
width: 950px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}
#header
{
background-color: #C97;
line-height: auto;
text-align: center;
font-family: "Lucida Console";
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 2.5em;
}
#main-section
{
background-color: #ddd;
height: inherit;
/* for a "sticky" footer */
padding-bottom: 50px; /* equal to the height of the footer */
}
#footer
{
clear: both;
position: relative;
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
margin-top: -50px; /* equal to the height of the footer, for a "sticky footer" */
width: 950px; /* equal to width of wrapper */
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
text-align: center;
background-color: #C97;
}
EDIT: It is important to mention that I am testing this in Firefox.
Here is a reference for you.
LIVE DEMO
Make change in footer
#footer
{
bottom:0px;
width:100%;
height:50px;
position:fixed; // this is the key
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
width: 950px;
background-color: #C97;
}
Updated Jsfiidle demo
So, a workaround, that exhibits the same behavior --
Instead of messing with the nested main-section div, I am applying the background-color to the wrapper div itself (and also not applying postion: absolute to the main-section div, but still applying position: fixed to the footer div).
This way, the main-section can contain any amount of content, and it will appear to have a 100% height background-color.
I am trying to stretch the content area of the page to 100%. I have got a fixed header (50px height) and a sticky footer (95px height) and anything in between should use 100% height...However I can't get this to work. Here is my CSS
<div id="wrap">
<!-- fixed top navigation -->
<div id="main">
<!-- main content -->
</div>
</div>
<footer>
<!-- footer -->
</footer>
The CSS is like this
html, body {
height: 100%; /* needed for container min-height */
}
#wrap {min-height: 100%;}
#main {
position:relative; /* needed for footer positioning*/
overflow:auto;
padding-bottom: 95px; /* must be same height as the footer */
padding-top:50px;
min-height:100%;
}
footer {
position: relative;
margin-top: -95px; /* negative value of footer height */
height: 95px;
background-color:#ebebeb;
}
body {margin:0px;padding:0px;}
Any ideas how to do this?
if you've putted the footer relative ("sticky") meaning you want you website to scroll down with the content.
so you need do create another div ("block") -> in the HTML position the div between header and footer,
and give it a width of 100% and a height of auto; (meaning: the div will fill up verticaly with the amount of content putted in it.
you can make the footer like
footer{
position: absolute;
border: 3px solid #eee;
height: 30px;
top: auto;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
i have tried before a lot
try use javascript to set height 100%
or try to use frameset
UPDATE
this article for using css
http://www.dave-woods.co.uk/index.php/100-height-layout-using-css/
but i am sure 90% that it may have a problems with different browsers but try it.
and this article for using jQuery
http://nicholasbarger.com/2011/08/04/jquery-makes-100-height-so-much-easier/
and this for using frameset
http://www.echoecho.com/htmlframes08.htm
and
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_frames.asp
Finally you will choose what is useful for your project
Good Luck
My Regards
The best and simple way is
html,body{
height:100%;
}
#wrap {
height: calc(100%-50px-95px);
}
.footer {
//your code here
height: 95px;
}