Sticky Footer Not Working in Firefox - css

We've got a sticky footer that is working great in anything WebKit based but doesn't seem to work in Firefox (Or new versions of IE either).
There is extra space being generated below the footer of around 200px in height that is inheriting the background colour of body.
The extra space does not seem to be part of any div that we can find, including html, body, content, wrapper etc. etc. It also does not seem to be caused by any sort of padding or margins on any elements.
We've built it on Ryan Fait's CSS Sticky Footer method that uses a push div inside of the wrapper div, with a separate footer div.
You can check it out at redesign.treepuncher.com/freetrial/

Iframe at the bottom of your page and copyright is creating unnecessary space. You can stop iframe from being displayed if that does not affect your website's functionality.
Try this code:
.copy {
color: #FFFFFF;
float: right;
font-weight: 100 !important;
margin: 95px 15px 0 15px; //Fixes margin at the bottom of this div
}
iframe {
display: none; //Stops iframe from being displayed
}

The following css should make it sticky and remove unnecessary space at bottom
.footer {
background-color: #006837;
bottom: 0;
color: #FFFFFF;
font-family: "roboto",sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
font-weight: 100;
height: 120px;
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
height: auto !important;
margin: 0 auto;
min-height: 100%;
}

Related

How can I get the body to continue look the same when a div inside overflows to the right?

html {
background-color: #e2e2e2;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
white-space:nowrap;
}
body {
background-color: #fff;
border-top: solid 10px #000;
color: #333;
font-size: .85em;
font-family: "Segoe UI", Verdana, Helvetica, Sans-Serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#body {
min-width:1015px;
background-color: #efeeef;
padding-bottom: 35px;
position: relative;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: top;
}
I have css above in a page of mine. The #body is used for a div that's getting populated by partial views using ajax.
The problem is that when content in #body is overflowing to the right then body does not encapsulate the content of #body, it stays the size of the window when loaded. So when scrolling horizontally the background looks different for the body part in the region that becomes visible when scrolling.
How can i get the body to continue look the same when #body owerflows to the right?
http://jsfiddle.net/q2j4wcmo/
UPDATE:
Hashem Qolami did solve part of my problem, when zooming in on the content in #body, body still incapsulates #body and it looks as it supposed to. But in my solution when loading the page and the content in #body is overflowing body is not encapsulating the content in #body.
Any idea what could be different when running in jsfiddler where it's obviously working as supposed to?
UPDATE 2:
new example
http://jsfiddle.net/q2j4wcmo/10/
One option is changing display type of the <body> to inline-block to let it grow horizontally by its contents.
Also you could use min-width: 100%; to make sure that the <body> always fills the entire page even if its content is not that wide:
EXAMPLE HERE
html {
white-space:nowrap;
width: 100%;
}
body {
display: inline-block;
min-width: 100%;
}
Note: Since a percentage value of min-width refers to the width of the containing block, you have to specify an explicit width of <html> element as well (as I did).

CSS DOM issue - cannot find a reason why property is being overwritten

The site in question is 1000freewebsites.com. The specific pages I'm struggling with are:
1000freewebsites.com/signup.php
1000freewebsites.com/login.php
This site uses the skeleton framework and Ryan Fait's sticky footer. On these pages I have a div with the ID of #bluestripe that should fill the vertical space between the header and the footer.
There are three parent elements; #html, #body and .wrapper. All are set to height:100%; in the stylesheet. #bluestripe is also set to height:100% and min-height:100%. As I understand it, this should achieve the effect I desire. Do I have my theory wrong?
Using Chrome Inspector I find that the height attribute is crossed out for .wrapper. If my theory is correct, this explains why #bluestripe is not expanding to fill the vertical space.
I cannot find any element that over rides .wrapper's height setting. Can you see what I am missing?
Your CSS rule for .wrapper has 2 height declarations. Get rid of the one setting height to auto.
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important; /* <- Get rid of this one */
margin: 0 auto -40px;
height: 100%;
}
this is your css:
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important; //height here
margin: 0 auto -40px;
height: 100% ;//height again here
}
you are defining two times the height and as the first one got !important its overriding the second one
this cause another error, because the paddings and the other elements are pushing the .container div down, so if you change a few properties you can get rid of this behavior:
#bluestripe {
background: #0099cc;
width: 100%;
padding: 40px 0px 40px 0px;
border-top: 10px solid #666666;
/*height: 100%; drop this line*/
}
.wrapper {
background: #0099cc; /*add this line*/
min-height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -40px;
height: auto; /*acording to ryanfaits's css this is what mades the footer stick to the botom*/
}
this will made the .bluestripe shrink again but as the .wrapper still has the same background color, it doesn´t matters

Footer CSS Positioning

I have looked everywhere and I can't seem to find an answer to this - Obviously I am doing something wrong. Here is my footer css:
#footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
left: 0px;
margin: 0px;
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
padding-top : 10px;
background-image:url(../images/bottom_bg.jpg);
background-repeat:repeat;
text-align:center;
border-top: 5px solid #000;
font-family:Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
font-weight:bold;
color:#FFCC66;
}
www.bevwebdev.com/examples.php
what the heck am I doing wrong?? I've tried z-index, setting height only works for tables, position: absolute just sticks it on the middle of my shorter pages - what a headache!!!
The problem is when you scroll down, the footer covers up the bottom part of the main container. The solution is to add a bottom margin to the container div.
#container {
margin-bottom: 100px;
}
This puts 100px of blank-ness below the div so, when at the very bottom of the page, all of the text still shows.
If you always want the footer to be below everything else, you should be using position: relative
If you always want the footer to be fixed to the bottom of the browser, you should be using position: fixed
If you always want the footer a certain distance from the another element or the top of the page, you should be using position: absolute
If you want the bottom of the page to not be hidden under the footer add this CSS:
body {
padding-bottom:100px;
}
Or some number that works for you. This will push the body content up a bit so you can see it.

Browser Toolbar interferes with CSS header region

I am in the process of designing a web page and I'm using the following CSS to create the page header with the main header image centered in a 1000px width page, and for a repeating edge image going across the top of the body and underneath the header to spread across the whole browser page width.
body {
font-family: Tahoma;
background-color: #0184AE;
background-image: url('/images/headeredge.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: top;
margin: 0;
position: relative;
}
.whole-page {
width: 1000px;
margin: auto;
padding: 0;
text-align: left;
position: relative;
border-radius: 0 0 15px 15px;
}
.header {
width: 100%;
height: 120px;
color: white;
background-image: url('/images/header.jpg');
background-repeat: no-repeat;
font-size: 10pt;
margin-top: 0px;
margin-bottom: 0;
padding-top: 10px;
border: 1px black none;
position: relative;
}
The CSS above works, except when a toolbar appears. I'm using Chrome with a SEO toolbar and it displaces the centered header image correctly, it pushes it down underneath the toolbar so I can see the whole image.
However, the repeated body image is not displaced at all and the toolbar covers the top so many pixels. This puts the whole thing out of whack.
I've tried a few options in the CSS, but so far nothing seems to work. I'm guessing here, but I think the toolbar draws itself using CSS that 'exists' under the body tag.
Can anyone suggest anything, I'd like either the whole header pushed down, or not. Just so it's consistent.
Using the Chrome developer tools (hit f12) you can inspect (click the magnifying glass icon on the bottom) the toolbar element. Doing this you can see that it is indeed inserted to the body of document. This will unfortunately result in the actual behavior you are seeing. In other words, this is not your fault but the fault of the toolbar developers.
One (ugly) work around is to throw an additional div around your content and apply the background to that.
E.G.
HTML
<body>
<div id="notBody">
<!--Rest of your headers, content, etc here -->
</div>
</body>
CSS
body {
font-family: Tahoma;
background-color: #0184AE;
margin: 0;
position: relative;
}
#notBody {
background-image: url('/images/headeredge.jpg');
background-repeat: repeat-x;
background-position: top;
}
in your header class change to position: absolute; and use top to set how many pixels you want your header to be from the top of the page.
.header {
position: absolute;
/* all your other styles */
top: 200px;
}

Container DIV not expanding to include DIVs with absolute positioning

I imagine there is a simple solution, but it eludes me. If you look at this page you will see that only the header has a grey background. The grey background is set by the #container DIV which I would like to stretch down the entire height of the page:
#container {
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
background-color: #292929;
width: 1200px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
At the moment it is only stretching over the header section of the page, and the content below is not contained within it. I imagine that is because the main content in the #content DIV has absolute positioning, which I need in order to be able to do some animations on the positioning of this div (you can see this when you hover over the nav bar image):
#content {
font-family: Lucida sans unicode !important;
color: #CECBBB;
text-align: justify;
position: absolute;
top: 210px;
padding: 20px 40px;
}
From some research it would seem that DIVs with absolute positioning are not included in the height of parent DIVs, but I am not sure how to fix this.
I'd be grateful for some help.
Thanks,
Nick
Yes, you're right. Elements with absolute positioning are not considered anymore in layout of their parent container. To understand it better, I recommend you read CSS Positioning from A List Apart.
IMHO, you have many solutions:
Use floated layout, instead of absolute positioned layout
Hardcode the height of container element
Use JavaScript to always update the height of the container element.
If you need to have #content absolutely positioned (as you state in your question) then the best way to get the background you desire is to either put the background-color: #292929 on the #content itself (you will probably need to adjust some positioning and padding to eliminate any black).
However, if the animation is the submenu at the top that opens on hover, then I suggest setting both the menu and the content divs to position: relative, and instead of animating the top position of the #content (as your script appears to be doing), animate the height of the menu (have it zero as default and animate to something like 45px high [that's what firebug showed the height to be open]).
#content {
color: #CECBBB;
font-family: Lucida sans unicode !important;
margin-top: 40px;
padding: 20px 40px;
text-align: justify;
}
add a margin-top and remove the position absolute will do this.
Expanding a bit on Cecil's answer here.
One can position divs with margins instead, in order to make sure parent grows with child.
Se this fiddle
https://jsfiddle.net/944oahmy/10/
Where the following css is used
#parent {
border: 1px solid blue;
margin-top: -5px;
margin-left: 10px;
display: inline-block;
}
#child {
border: 1px solid red;
margin-top: 75px;
margin-left: 150px;
width: 500px;
}

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