HTML-CSS position problem with div - css

Question

I got a little problem and nothing I test seems to work.
My HTML:
<div id="parent">
<div id="top_parent">Top_background
<div id="top">Top_Picture</div></div>
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>
</div>
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>
CSS:
#top_parent {
background:#f00;
height:100px;
}
#top{
background:#0f0;
float:right;
position:relative;
height:100px;
width:50%;
}
#content{
top:-50px;
background:#00f;
<!-- position:relative;-->
height:100px;
width:80%;
margin:auto;
}
#parent{
background:#000;
height:350px;
width:100%;
}
#bottom {
height: 50px;
background:#ff0;
bottom:0px;
<!--position:absolute; -->
<!--position:relative; -->
}
Now my problem is, the footer won't get under the parent div, it stays in the content area. What am I doing wrong?
jsF link: my source
Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

You have not closed this div:
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>
Should be:
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff</div>
You could see this easily if you indented your divs:
<div id="parent">
<div id="top_parent">Top_background
<div id="top">Top_Picture</div>
</div>
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div> <!-- Can see the problem -->
</div>
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>

Answer 2

Not sure if you copy-pasted or if this is a typo when you posted your code, but this line:
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>
Should have a closing </div> tag at the end instead of that opening <div> tag. If that's actually your HTML, then it would not be grouping the divs the way you want/expect.

Answer 3

I think you have a wrong html:
<div id="parent">
<div id="top_parent">Top_background
<div id="top">Top_Picture</div></div>
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>
</div>
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>
You didn't close div parent, nor content
<div id="parent">
<div id="top_parent">Top_background
<div id="top">Top_Picture</div>
</div>
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff</div>
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>
</div>
Interpreting that you want the "bottom" div inside the "parent", else:
<div id="parent">
<div id="top_parent">Top_background
<div id="top">Top_Picture</div>
</div>
<div id="content">Here comes random stuff</div>
</div>
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>
Also, in your css you should enable the position:relative for #content div, else the top parameter won't work.
Try if this solves the problem.

Answer 4

In order to position footer after the content divs you have to float content divs first and then add clear:both css command to the footer. So your tree sould look like this:::
<div class="wrapper"><div class="left"></div><div class="right"></div><br clear="all" /><div class="footer"></div>
For this example your css should be as following:::
div.wrapper{
width:80%;
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
}
div.left{
float:left;
width:60%;
background:green;
height:200px; /height only for testing so you could see the result/
}
div.right{
float:right;
width:30%;
background:red;
height:200px; /height only for testing so you could see the result/
}
div.footer{
clear:both;
height:40px;/height only for testing so you could see the result/
background:yellow;
width:100%;
}

Answer 5

Have you tried taking out that "bottom" attribute in the #bottom rule?