Sticky Footer, but only sometimes - css

I've got a basic site with header, content, footer. What I'm looking for is a way to style the footer so that, depending on screen resolution, if the content doesn't fill the page it sticks to the bottom, but if content overflows it pushes the footer down (have to scroll the browser to see the footer).
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="headwrapper">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<li class="active">Link1</li>
<li>Link2</li>
<li>Link3</li>
<li>Link4</li>
<li>Link5</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div id="content-container">
<div id="content">
<h2>
Page heading
</h2>
<p>
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</p>
<p>
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</p>
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div id="aside">
<h3>
Aside heading
</h3>
<div class="box">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
<div class="box">
<p>
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</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<p>Footer content</p>
</div>
</div>
html, body {height:100%;}
#wrapper {
max-width:100%;
min-width:1000px;
min-height:100%;
margin:0 auto;
background-image:url(images/shadowborder.png);
background-repeat:repeat-y;
background-position:center;
}
#headwrapper {
position:relative;
-moz-background-clip:border;
-moz-background-origin:padding;
-moz-background-size:auto auto;
background-attachment:scroll;
background-color:#003a72;
background:url(images/bnr_rpt.jpg) repeat-x;
height:150px;
}
#header {
position:relative;
-moz-background-clip:border;
-moz-background-origin:padding;
-moz-background-size:auto auto;
background-attachment:scroll;
background-color:transparent;
background:url(images/KMIAFS_banner.jpg) center top no-repeat;
height:150px;
}
#menu {
clear:left;
float:left;
padding:0;
border-top:5px solid #f52620;
width:100%;
overflow:hidden;
height:70px;
}
#menu ul {
float:left;
margin:0;
padding:0;
list-style:none;
position:relative;
left:50%;
text-align:center;
}
#menu ul li {
display:block;
float:left;
list-style:none;
margin:0;
padding:0;
position:relative;
right:50%;
font-size:16px;
font-family:Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif!important;
font-weight:bold;
}
#menu ul li a {
display:block;
float:left;
margin:0 2px 0 0;
padding:10px 20px 6px 20px;
background:#003a72;
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFF;
}
#menu ul li a:hover {
padding:15px 20px 6px 20px;
background-color:#999;
}
#menu ul li.active a, #menu ul li.active a:hover {
color:#CCC;
}
#content-container {
min-height:100%;
height:100%;
height:auto!important;
margin:0 auto -70px;
width:1000px;
}
#content {
clear:left;
float:left;
width:610px;
margin:0 0 0 30px;
display:inline;
background-color:transparent;
}
#content img {
border:solid 2px #CCC;
float:left;
margin:14px 10px 10px 0px;
}
#content h2 {
margin:0;
}
#aside {
float:right;
width:290px;
margin:0 30px 0 0px;
display:inline;
background-color:transparent;
}
#aside p {
color:#CCC;
}
#aside .box {
margin-bottom:20px;
padding:20px;
color:#fff;
background-color:#336699;
-webkit-border-radius:20px;
-moz-border-radius:20px;
}
#footer {
height:70px;
width:100%;
border-top:5px solid #f52620;
background:url(images/ftr_rpt.jpg) repeat-x;
text-align:center;
color:#FFF;
margin:0 auto;
clear:both;
}
#footer a {
color:#FFF;
text-decoration:none!important;
padding:-5px;
}
#footer a:hover {
color:#CCC;
}
And here's the site: http://www.erisdesigns.net/Stage/McCampbellInsurance/index.html

I use this version, and it works quite well.

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Css collapsing padding-bottom

I have serious troubles with my css layout.
This is my workingbase: http://jsfiddle.net/UeVm8/1/
<div id="container">
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<h1>
Site name
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<div id="content">
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</p>
</div>
<div id="footer">
Copyright © Site name, 20XX
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html, body{
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
-moz-box-sizing:border-box;
-webkit-box-sizing:border-box;
box-sizing:border-box;
padding-top:10px;
padding-bottom:10px;
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margin: 0 auto;
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background:#333;
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height:auto !important;
overflow: hidden !important;
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#content
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background:#ccc;
bottom:0;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
padding-left: 20px;
width:100%;
}
The site should always be 100% height at minimum with small distances to top and bottom.
There shouldn't be scrollbars, except the content is too big. Then it should fit to the content and the distances to top and bottom should stay.
But when you resize the window, the padding at the bottom disappears!?!
I already tried different settings and found a solution for Firefox: http://jsfiddle.net/UeVm8/7/
But this solution does not work in Chrome and IE.
I am totally annoyed by this nasty inconsistence in the CSS implementations.
Does anybody know how to solve this issue for all (modern) browsers?
Thanks.
PS: It's an stylesheet only for desktops.
I finally found the answer! :)
As mentioned I already found a solution for Firefox, but it was not working on Chrome.
After some fiddling I also had a solution for Chrome, which wasn't working on Firefox.
I think the issue is that there seems to be a bug in Google Chrome.
But I could combine both solutions by just overwriting settings just for chrome with some special selector.
The CSS solution: http://jsfiddle.net/UeVm8/8/
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How to add a fixed sidebar

I want to add a fixed sidebar like in the picture below.
How is that possible?
Appreciate any suggestion.
Solution
used to this
fixed position
.sidebar{
position:fixed;
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Demo
.SomeClass { position: fixed }
This fiddle might solve your problem, with right column being flexible and left column fixed
http://jsfiddle.net/R5TZH/
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Newbie to CSS - aligning text and a photo within a sub-container

I've been searching for an answer on this, and tried multiple methods of fixing it to no avail. I'm teaching myself CSS while re-building a site, and have a small problem.
I have a container within a parent container - the "sub-container" (for lack of a better term) has it's own header, a photo to the left, and copy to the right. The copy should be top-aligned to the photo, and equally spaced between the right edge of the photo and the right edge of the background image in the sub-container. What I'm getting is the photo in the proper place, with the copy butted up against the bottom right corner of the photo.
I'm fairly certain the issue is a mix between lack of knowledge and a mis-understanding of what is causing what... so any help with this is greatly appreciated.
Here's my CSS:
#wrapper {
background-image:url("images/About/Copy-Block.png");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
width: 745px;
height: 339px;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 30px;
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display:block;
padding-top: 15px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
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padding-left: 90px;
font-size: 13px;
color: #FFF;
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and here is my html:
<div id="wrapper">
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<img src="images/About/image.png" width="257" height="194" class="wrapper photo"/>
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You wrote "photo" instead of "img" in your CSS, edit it like this and it will work!
#wrapper img{
float: left;
}
However, you have 2 images in your example and this will float both of them. You can solve that by giving for example an ID/class to those images.
First off, you aren't referencing your classes properly: "#wrapper photo" should be "#wrapper .photo". Also, id's can't have spaces in them ("#wrapper head").
There are a few ways you can add spacing you desire. The most straight forward way would be to add padding directly to the image:
#wrapper .photo { float: left; padding-right: 10px }
I would also like to point out that the markup you are using is very poor. Headlines should go in h1-h6 tags (images are still allowed in these tags!), paragraphs of text should be in p tags. Section or article tags might be an appropriate replacement for your wrapper div. It's not enough to know CSS, you also need to know the appropriate HTML markup to go with it.
A more efficient way of doing this would be like this:
section.foo {
background-image:url("images/About/Copy-Block.png");
background-repeat:no-repeat;
width: 745px;
height: 339px;
margin: 0 auto;
margin-top: 30px;
}
section.foo h1 {
padding-top: 15px;
padding-bottom: 2px;
text-align: center;
}
section.foo p {
padding-left: 90px;
font-size: 13px;
color: #FFF;
font-style: italic;
}
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float: left;
padding-right: 10px;
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And the HTML:
<section class="foo">
<h1><img src="images/About/About-Us-Subhead.png" width="748" height="116" /></h1>
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First of all, Never use any spaces naming an ID.
So change id="wrapper head" to id=id="wrapper_head"
Next, elements can be selected by their tags.
An Image is coded by <img tag so you can select it directly in CSS by img { } .
In your case, you want to select image inside #wrapper division, so select it by :
#wrapper img
{
/* Code Here... */
}
The problem of your code are the spaces in the id tags.
Try something like
<div id="wrapper_head" ....
instead of
<div id="wrapper head" ....
That should solve your problem!

DIV inside DIV inside DIV 100% Height

I know this question has probably been asked before and I have tried several different ways of doing this, but I can not seem to get my inner DIV to expand to the full height of the viewport.
Here is my CSS:
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<div id="subcontainer">
<div id="rightnav">
<p>
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer adipiscing elit, sed diam nonummy nibh euismod tincidunt ut.
</p>
</div>
<div id="content">
<h2>Subheading</h2>
<p>
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</p>
<p>
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</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
Footer
</div>
</div>
</form>
</body>
</html>
You cannot have a middle container first calculate a footer height, then subtract it from it's 100% height parent container.
You're only options with your current markup are:
Use javascript (unncessary overhead)
Use tables (probably not a good idea)
Here is an option that I had to rearrange your code: Code Here
I made your height and footer work, but it will require you to use faux columns, a common technique for bottom sticking footers. See this for an example.
Simply, assign a left border image to repeat-y on the body, and a right border image to repeat-y, background right, on the subcontainer.

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