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I have basic coding experience. In my Wordpress install, some of my pages have a blank white space under the footer that I would like to remove. I have tried several solutions but to no avail. The problem is persistent on chrome, Firefox, IE etc.
I'm not really sure of the cause, but the size of the white space changes depending on computer/browser/resolution.
As I am working in Wordpress I have access to custom CSS and source theme files, however, I would prefer to solve this problem with custom CSS.
I would like a footer that sticks to the bottom of the browser window with no whitespace below it.
Q. Please provide me with code/solution that will remove the white spaces below the footer on my website (preferably custom CSS method).
You can find an example of the white space on my website here. (try viewing on a browser resolution higher than 1280x800)
Solutions i've tried:
#footer {overflow: hidden;} didn't work
Putting html, body, parentDiv, childDiv, section, footer { height : 100%; } in my css but that didn't work
#copyright { padding-bottom: 20px;} "#copyright" is under the footer so this did reduce the whitespace to a point where it seemed it weren't present, but on taller browser windows the white space reappeared.
You have whitespace under the footer because the content is not sufficient to push it past the bottom of the monitor at higher resolutions.
I'd recommend using the Sticky Footer to handle this. It allows the minimum height of the body to be that of the browser, regardless of how little content is in the page.
The sticky footer solution requires some specific HTML to be included, and some basic CSS. Here's a Fiddle of Ryan Fiat's sticky footer in action using the code from his example.
The code goes like this:
HTML:
<body>
<div class="wrapper">
<p>Your website content here.</p>
<div class="push"></div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
<p>Footer content here</p>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
background-color:#eaeaea;
}
.wrapper {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -155px; /* the bottom margin is the negative value of the footer's height */
border:solid 1px red;
}
.footer, .push {
height: 155px; /* '.push' must be the same height as 'footer' */
}
.footer {
border:solid 1px blue;
}
Looking at your markup, you can use your existing div class="clear"></div> as your .push div, then you only need to add the div class="wrapper"> around your content.
Try something like this
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: 100%;
flex-direction: column;
min-height: 100vh;
display: flex;
}
footer {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.futovac {
flex: 1;
}
<html>
<body>
<main></main>
<div class="futovac"></div>
<footer></footer>
</body>
</html>
DEMO: https://help.podio.com/hc/en-us
find you code on .footer you code will be like this,
.footer-top-content .widget_links ul li a {
border-bottom: 1px #4C4C4C solid;
background: #333;
color:#999;
replace this code with this one,
.footer-top-content .widget_links ul li a {
border-bottom: 1px #4C4C4C solid;
background: #333;
color:#999 !important;
overflow: hidden;
this helped mine. hope for you too guys..
Beginning to wonder if I am missing something obvious but I have been searching for days now and still haven't been able to find a definitive answer.
What I am looking for is a Source ordered Content CSS layout for a two column page (menu to right) with header and sticky footer, and preferably no nasty hacks. Preferable Source order of:
{content}
{rightmenu}
{footer}
{header}
Like I say I'm not getting too far in trying to build this for myself, nor have I been able to find a suitable example anywhere. Any suggestions?
Thanks
content right, with sidebar left is perhaps the easiest floated layout to make, just float the content right with a width, let the left fill the space with overflow to avoid wrapping. footer goes below by clearing.
As for the header put a fake header div first in the source, presuming there may be a logo or something to go in it, even though you might not want hordes of links up there if there is a big dropdown menu to go in there or something like that. Anyway I'd make the "fake" header tall enough to create the space you need then put any actual content in it, then put the content you want to appear top only in a div at the bottom and absolutely position it.
here's a fiddled mockup
This is the best I can come up with at the moment. Bit of a mixture of relative and absolute positioning but seems to work. Can anyone see any problems with this.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
* {
margin: 0;
}
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.container {
min-height: 100%;
/*height: auto !important;*/
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -2em;
}
.content{
float: left;
width: 80%;
}
.menu{
margin-left: 80%;
}
.header{
position: absolute;
top: 0px;
height: 3em;
width: 100%;
}
.clearheader{
height: 3em;
}
.footer, .clearfooter {
height: 2em;
clear: both;
}
.container {
background: grey;
}
.header{
background: cyan;
}
.clearheader{
background: cyan;
}
.footer{
background: blue;
}
.clearfooter {
background: lightblue;
}
</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="NJC layout2.css" ... />
</head>
<body>
<div class="container">
<div class="clearheader"></div>
<div class="content">Content</div>
<div class="menu">menu</div>
<div class="clearfooter"></div>
</div>
<div class="header">header</div>
<div class="footer">Footer</div>
</body>
</html>
If I understand your question right, this should be your answer:
http://www.positioniseverything.net/ordered-floats.html
I actually think this article is explaining everything quite nice.
I have a container on my test site:
#container {
margin: 0 auto;
}
Then I added the left vertical menu and on some small screens that menu is not fully visible.
Like my old laptop :-)
I want to keep the margin:auto setting in place but I want to move the whole #container a little bit to the right.
Could it be done some how?
I have tried #container {margin-left:10px;}, but to no avail.
Playing with firebug, it's good to use:
#container {
margin: 0 auto;
position:relative;
left:10px;
}
Hope it solves...
The simplest approach would be to introduce another element (or style another element if it's already available). Thus, you might have:
<div style="margin-left: 10px;">
<div id="container" style="margin: auto;">...</div>
</div>
That way the centering is being done within a container div that's already got the appropriate left-hand padding.
If you wrap your #container div in another div with double the left margin, that will work.
#wrap {
margin-left: 20px;
}
.centre { /* this would be your #container */
width: 100px;
height: 40px;
margin: auto;
background-color: #f00;
}
#wrap .centre {
background-color: #00f;
}
The HTML:
<div class="centre"></div>
<div id="wrap">
<div class="centre"></div>
</div>
http://jsbin.com/emogu3
I have been attempting to split a div into two columns using CSS, but I have not managed to get it working yet. My basic structure is as follows:
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<div id="object1"></div>
<div id="object2"></div>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="object3"></div>
<div id="object4"></div>
</div>
</div>
If I attempt to float the right and left divs to their respective positions (right and left), it seems to ignore the content div's background-color. And other code that I have tried from various websites doesn't seem to be able to translate to my structure.
Thanks for any help!
This works good for me. I have divided the screen into two halfs: 20% and 80%:
<div style="width: 20%; float:left">
#left content in here
</div>
<div style="width: 80%; float:right">
#right content in there
</div>
When you float those two divs, the content div collapses to zero height. Just add
<br style="clear:both;"/>
after the #right div but inside the content div. That will force the content div to surround the two internal, floating divs.
Another way to do this is to add overflow:hidden; to the parent element of the floated elements.
overflow:hidden will make the element grow to fit in floated elements.
This way, it can all be done in css rather than adding another html element.
None of the answers given answer the original question.
The question is how to separate a div into 2 columns using css.
All of the above answers actually embed 2 divs into a single div in order to simulate 2 columns. This is a bad idea because you won't be able to flow content into the 2 columns in any dynamic fashion.
So, instead of the above, use a single div that is defined to contain 2 columns using CSS as follows...
.two-column-div {
column-count: 2;
}
assign the above as a class to a div, and it will actually flow its contents into the 2 columns. You can go further and define gaps between margins as well. Depending on the content of the div, you may need to mess with the word break values so your content doesn't get cut up between the columns.
The most flexible way to do this:
#content::after {
display:block;
content:"";
clear:both;
}
This acts exactly the same as appending the element to #content:
<br style="clear:both;"/>
but without actually adding an element. ::after is called a pseudo element. The only reason this is better than adding overflow:hidden; to #content is that you can have absolute positioned child elements overflow and still be visible. Also it will allow box-shadow's to still be visible.
For whatever reason I've never liked the clearing approaches, I rely on floats and percentage widths for things like this.
Here's something that works in simple cases:
#content {
overflow:auto;
width: 600px;
background: gray;
}
#left, #right {
width: 40%;
margin:5px;
padding: 1em;
background: white;
}
#left { float:left; }
#right { float:right; }
If you put some content in you'll see that it works:
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<div id="object1">some stuff</div>
<div id="object2">some more stuff</div>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="object3">unas cosas</div>
<div id="object4">mas cosas para ti</div>
</div>
</div>
You can see it here: http://cssdesk.com/d64uy
Make children divs inline-block and they will position side by side:
#content {
width: 500px;
height: 500px;
}
#left, #right {
display: inline-block;
width: 45%;
height: 100%;
}
See Demo
You can use flexbox to control the layout of your div element:
* { box-sizing: border-box; }
#content {
background-color: rgba(210, 210, 210, 0.5);
border: 1px solid #000;
padding: 0.5rem;
display: flex;
}
#left,
#right {
background-color: rgba(10, 10, 10, 0.5);
border: 1px solid #fff;
padding: 0.5rem;
flex-grow: 1;
color: #fff;
}
<div id="content">
<div id="left">
<div id="object1">lorem ipsum</div>
<div id="object2">dolor site amet</div>
</div>
<div id="right">
<div id="object3">lorem ipsum</div>
<div id="object4">dolor site amet</div>
</div>
</div>
Best way to divide a div vertically --
#parent {
margin: 0;
width: 100%;
}
.left {
float: left;
width: 60%;
}
.right {
overflow: hidden;
width: 40%;
}
Pure old school CSS
I know this post is old, but if any of you still looking for a simpler solution.
#container .left,
#container .right {
display: inline-block;
}
#container .left {
width: 20%;
float: left;
}
#container .right {
width: 80%;
float: right;
}
If you don't care old browser and need a simple way.
#content {
display: flex;
}
#left,
#right {
flex: 50%;
}
Floats don't affect the flow. What I tend to do is add a
<p class="extro" style="clear: both">possibly some content</p>
at the end of the 'wrapping div' (in this case content). I can justify this on a semantic basis by saying that such a paragraph might be needed. Another approach is to use a clearfix CSS:
#content:after {
content: ".";
display: block;
height: 0;
clear: both;
visibility: hidden;
}
#content {
display: inline-block;
}
/* \*/
* html #content {
height: 1%;
}
#content {
display: block;
}
/* */
The trickery with the comments is for cross-browser compatibility.
This is best answered here Question 211383
These days, any self-respecting person should be using the stated "micro-clearfix" approach of clearing floats.
Make font size equal to zero in parent DIV.
Set width % for each of child DIVs.
#content {
font-size: 0;
}
#content > div {
font-size: 16px;
width: 50%;
}
*In Safari you may need to set 49% to make it works.
Divide a division in two columns is very easy, just specify the width of your column better if you put this (like width:50%) and set the float:left for left column and float:right for right column.
In the markup shown below, I'm trying to get the content div to stretch all the way to the bottom of the page but it's only stretching if there's content to display. The reason I want to do this is so the vertical border still appears down the page even if there isn't any content to display.
Here is my DEMO:
body {
font-family: Trebuchet MS, Verdana, MS Sans Serif;
font-size:0.9em;
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
div#header {
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
}
#header a {
background-position: 100px 30px;
background: transparent url(site-style-images/sitelogo.jpg) no-repeat fixed 100px 30px;
height: 80px;
display: block;
}
#header, #menuwrapper {
background-repeat: repeat;
background-image: url(site-style-images/darkblue_background_color.jpg);
}
#menu #menuwrapper {
height:25px;
}
div#menuwrapper {
width:100%
}
#menu, #content {
width:1024px;
margin: 0 auto;
}
div#menu {
height: 25px;
background-color:#50657a;
}
<form id="form1">
<div id="header">
<a title="Home" href="index.html" />
</div>
<div id="menuwrapper">
<div id="menu">
</div>
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
</form>
Your problem is not that the div is not at 100% height, but that the container around it is not.This will help in the browser I suspect you are using:
html,body { height:100%; }
You may need to adjust padding and margins as well, but this will get you 90% of the way there.If you need to make it work with all browsers you will have to mess around with it a bit.
This site has some excellent examples:
http://www.brunildo.org/test/html_body_0.html
http://www.brunildo.org/test/html_body_11b.html
http://www.brunildo.org/test/index.html
I also recommend going to http://quirksmode.org/
I'll try to answer the question directly in the title, rather than being hell-bent on sticking a footer to the bottom of the page.
Make div extend to the bottom of the page if there's not enough content to fill the available vertical browser viewport:
Demo at (drag the frame handle to see effect) : http://jsfiddle.net/NN7ky
(upside: clean, simple. downside: requires flexbox - http://caniuse.com/flexbox)
HTML:
<body>
<div class=div1>
div1<br>
div1<br>
div1<br>
</div>
<div class=div2>
div2<br>
div2<br>
div2<br>
</div>
</body>
CSS:
* { padding: 0; margin: 0; }
html, body {
height: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
body > * {
flex-shrink: 0;
}
.div1 { background-color: yellow; }
.div2 {
background-color: orange;
flex-grow: 1;
}
ta-da - or i'm just too sleepy
Try playing around with the following css rule:
#content {
min-height: 600px;
height: auto !important;
height: 600px;
}
Change the height to suit your page. height is mentioned twice for cross browser compatibility.
you can kinda hack it with the min-height declaration
<div style="min-height: 100%">stuff</div>
You can use the "vh" length unit for the min-height property of the element itself and its parents. It's supported since IE9:
<body class="full-height">
<form id="form1">
<div id="header">
<a title="Home" href="index.html" />
</div>
<div id="menuwrapper">
<div id="menu">
</div>
</div>
<div id="content" class="full-height">
</div>
</body>
CSS:
.full-height {
min-height: 100vh;
box-sizing: border-box;
}
While it isn't as elegant as pure CSS, a small bit of javascript can help accomplish this:
<html>
<head>
<style type='text/css'>
div {
border: 1px solid #000000;
}
</style>
<script type='text/javascript'>
function expandToWindow(element) {
var margin = 10;
if (element.style.height < window.innerHeight) {
element.style.height = window.innerHeight - (2 * margin)
}
}
</script>
</head>
<body onload='expandToWindow(document.getElementById("content"));'>
<div id='content'>Hello World</div>
</body>
</html>
The min-height property is not supported by all browsers. If you need your #content to extend it's height on longer pages the height property will cut it short.
It's a bit of a hack but you could add an empty div with a width of 1px and height of e.g. 1000px inside your #content div. That will force the content to be at least 1000px high and still allow longer content to extend the height when needed
Try Ryan Fait's "Sticky Footer" solution,
http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/
http://ryanfait.com/resources/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page/
Works across IE, Firefox, Chrome, Safari and supposedly Opera too, but haven't tested that. It's a great solution. Very easy and reliable to implement.
Try:
html, body {
height: 102%;
}
.wrapper {
position: relative;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
.div {
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 1000px;
min-height: 100%;
}
Haven't tested it yet...
Sticky footer with fixed height:
HTML scheme:
<body>
<div id="wrap">
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
</body>
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin: 0 auto -60px;
}
#footer {
height: 60px;
}
Try http://mystrd.at/modern-clean-css-sticky-footer/
The link above is down, but this link https://stackoverflow.com/a/18066619/1944643 is ok. :D
Demo:
<!DOCTYPE html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<meta name="author" content="http://mystrd.at">
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow">
<title>James Dean CSS Sticky Footer</title>
<style type="text/css">
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0 0 100px;
/* bottom = footer height */
padding: 25px;
}
footer {
background-color: orange;
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
overflow: hidden;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<article>
<!-- or <div class="container">, etc. -->
<h1>James Dean CSS Sticky Footer</h1>
<p>Blah blah blah blah</p>
<p>More blah blah blah</p>
</article>
<footer>
<h1>Footer Content</h1>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
I think the issue would be fixed just making the html fill 100% also,
might be body fills the 100% of the html but html doesn't fill 100% of the screen.
Try with:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
Also you might like this: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/ultimate-2-column-left-menu-pixels.htm
It isn't quite what you asked for, but it might also suit your needs.
I dont have the code, but I know I did this once using a combination of height:1000px and margin-bottom: -1000px; Try that.
Depending on how your layout works, you might get away with setting the background on the <html> element, which is always at least the height of the viewport.
It is not possible to accomplish this using only stylesheets (CSS). Some browsers will not accept
height: 100%;
as a higher value than the viewpoint of the browser window.
Javascript is the easiest cross browser solution, though as mentioned, not a clean or beautiful one.
#content {
height: calc(100% - the amount of pixels the content div is away from the top);
}
So if your div is 200px from the top, the code you need would be
#content {
height: calc(100% - 200px);
}
I know this is not the best method, but I couldnt figure it out without messing my header, menu, etc positions. So.... I used a table for those two colums. It was a QUICK fix. No JS needed ;)