Why is my footer not at the bottom of the page? - html

I have a page like http://codepen.io/meek/pen/NNprYb
My problem is that the footer is not staying at the bottom of the page, only at the bottom of the first section.
HTML for footer:
<footer class="row-footer">
<div class="container">
<div class="row">
text
</div>
</div>
</footer>
and CSS:
footer {
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
position: absolute;
height: 50px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
No matter what I try I can't get it to stay at the bottom. I'd like for it to be at the very end of the contact section.
clarification: I don't want it to be fixed, I just want it to be at the very bottom of the page.

Remove the height:100% from #content
Remove position:absolute from footer
Setting the height to 100% will only make it as tall as the windows/screen height. Removing it will make it "auto-expand".

Codepen Link
footer {
width: 100%;
bottom: 0;
position: fixed;
left: 0;
height: 50px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
OR
just do the following
Wrap the entire html inside a div lets call it wrapper
then
footer{
position: fixed;
top:expression((0-(footer.offsetHeight)+(document.documentElement.clientHeight ? document.documentElement.clientHeight : document.body.clientHeight)+(ignoreMe = document.documentElement.scrollTop ? document.documentElement.scrollTop : document.body.scrollTop))+'px');
height: 50px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
This piece of code just calculates the top value of your footer div

Ok, using position: absolute; on footers is generally never a good idea since the footer no longer will move relative to the rest of the content on the site. I understand that you do not want to use position: fixed; since this will not give you the results you are looking for.
Your #content div currently has a constant height of 100% which will push the footer to somewhere in the middle of the content.
My solution would be to use a min-height: 100%; on the #content div and remove the position: absolute; (and bottom: 0;) from the footer.
Result: The content-divs' height will adapt to be more than 100% if more content is added. It will always be at least 100% and therefore the footer will always be pushed to the bottom of the page, even if the content only fills half the window size.

Related

CSS only technique for a fixed bottom footer with variable height, no tables, no overlap

As mentioned in the title, here are the requirements:
a footer that must always be at the bottom of the viewport (no pushdown)
css only
height based on the content of the footer (variable)
somehow prevent overlap of the main content element - when scrolled down
no tables
header
content
footer
if you remove any of the requirements, I know how to do it, but not with all requirement intact.
does anyone know a solution?
To put the footer on the bottom you can use a variation of the following:
.some-footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
width: 100%
}
The problem with this is that the main content will be behind the footer and you won't be able to scroll it up. And you can't just put a padding-bottom on the content because you don't know the footer's height.
I would recommend putting a duplicate of the footer after the content, but this one with position: relative, and with opacity: 0. This way you can always scroll until all the content is visible, independently of the footer's height.
This should work as you want! :) It will always be at the bottom of the page.
This will always be at the bottom of the viewport, NO MATTER WHAT! :D
#footer{
height: auto;
min-height: 100px;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
bottom: 0px;
position: fixed;
display: block;
z-index: 100000;
}
<div id="footer">
</div>

How can I give full width of this element?

I have this site:
http://dl.dg-site.com/functionmentes/
There is a div with color #D9D9D9
Code CSS:
#full_bar{background:#D9D9D9;width:100%;height:100px;}
I want to my div to be the full width site and to be glued to footer.
How can i make this?
I use a theme in Wordpress.
Thanks in advance!
By making the position fixed, this will ensure that it will follow the user as they scroll up and down your website.
#full_bar {
background: #d9d9d9;
width: 100%;
height: 100px;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}
If you add position:absolute; left: 0; to the css, the bar will more or less do what you're trying to do, but it's a dirty hack.
The real problem is that you're adding your 'full_bar' in the wrong place (inside a div which restricts the width). Personally I would opt for placing the full-bar in your <footer> tag.
You should placed your gray bar outside the section, between section and footer or on footer on html.
But if you want a css solution, you need to put your section parent to position relative and set your gray bar on absolute bottom with full width:
section {
position: relative;
padding-bottom: 100px; // Your bar height
}
#full_bar{
background:#D9D9D9;
width:100%;
height:100px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
}
You are putting #full_bar inside class="container". container is the parent of div id #full_bar, that's why its not taking full width.
Do your code outside contaner class and you can see the changes.
See the attachment, i think you want this as per i understand your question.

Sticky Footer doesn't work right

I want to make a sticky footer like the one I made in this example.
http://codepen.io/Kenny94/pen/JvtFs
html, body {
height: 100%;
width:100%;
padding: 0;
margin: 0;
position: relative;
}
div {
font-size: 30px;
min-height:100%;
margin-bottom:60px;
background: red;
}
footer {
background:green;
height: 60px;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
Right: 0;
z-index: -1;
}
The problem is it doesn't work right in my current project. It sets the footer behind the body but if I start to scroll it appears. If I watch the size of the body in chrome it has a height off 970px but the whole site is much bigger because of the post. It seems to me that the body didn't expand like the Blog Post Wrapper. I set the BG-Color to grey in the body and that fills the whole page. I have no clue why it dosen't work with height 100%. I could set the height to 4000px to fit with the content and everything else but thats not a real solution.
I'm not exactly sure what you are trying to achieve.
-If you are wondering why the footer is placed behind the body, it's because you set
z-index to -1.
So the fix would be this: http://jsfiddle.net/bmpy6/
-If you don't want to have it visible when scrolling (so to say, keep it fixed at the bottom at all times), this should be what you want: http://jsfiddle.net/bmpy6/1/
For that, you omit the position: fixed;.
You don't need to set your height on the html tag or the body tag. It will flow with the content. You're setting the min-height of the main div to 100%. This will take up the rest of the remaining space when a view is loaded pushing the footer off the screen. You can either change the height of the main div or make the footer position fixed to the bottom of the screen if you want it to be sticky as in stick to the bottom of the screen.
Change :
footer {
background:green;
height: 60px;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
Right: 0;
z-index: -1;
}
To :
footer {
background:green;
height: 60px;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
Right: 0;
z-index: 1;
}
Just changing the z-index will bring your footer to the front. Remember that the Z-index basically gives your id's and classes precedence over one another in terms of their visibility.
You do not need to set the height at all. Try this:
div {
font-size: 30px;
margin-bottom:60px;
background: red;
}
Instead of:
div {
font-size: 30px;
min-height:100%;
margin-bottom:60px;
background: red;
}
You see, when you tell the page to have a height of 100%, you are telling it fill 100% of the screens height. When you remove the height,(In this case it was a min-height so it will expand if needed) the <div> expands to the height needed to hold the content.
See this JSFiddle for a working example
Hope this helps!

Unspecified content height with Automatic Overflow and header/footer always in view and no scroll wheel on the page

Okay, so I'm having rather annoying problems with what should be simple code, I've searched for duplicates but it appears to be different in a slight way. Here's my basic layout:
html:
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="content"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
css:
html,body,#wrapper {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#wrapper {
position: relative;
}
#header {
position: fixed;
top: 0px;
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
color: white;
background-color: #000000;
}
#content {
position: fixed;
padding-bottom: 50px; /* to match the footer height*/
top: 40px;
bottom: 50px;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
#footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
height: 49px;
width: 100%;
border-top: 1px solid #000000;
background-color: skyblue;
font-weight: bold;
}
The idea is that the 3 divs inside the wrapper take up 100% of the page - in other words: all them are always in view. Header up top, footer on the bottom and content in the middle respectively.
The footer and header can be fixed size (be it pixels or % of page height), the content I want to automatically take up the rest of the page.
The problem is that the page can be of many different resolutions(so content can't be of fixed height, unless I use javasript). Another thing is that the content div can have variable amount of elements, meaning it has to allow the scrolling of the content while keeping both header and footer in view. The main part is: the scroll-wheel must be inside the content div, not page-wide.
I almost have what I want with this css, but some of the content can't be scrolled to when they overflows content div (I'm talking vertical overflows - there will be no horizontal ones). I would really appreciate some help, but this is not as easy/simple as it seems, if possible at all as I think you need a fixed height for overflow: auto.
I want a pure css solution, if possible, so don't mention JqueryMobile to me (or ever).
Here's how it looks right now, notice the scroll-wheel problem on the content div:
I hate when this happens...I found the solution just after I posted, decided to try one more thing: I've set the #content height to 'auto' and that did it (since once I drew my own attention to the scroll-wheel, it became apparent the problem is with the div height)! Just need to test and make sure that's the case with all/most browsers!
Maybe it will be helpful to someone else though!

Scroll page content within specific area?

I'm designing a website which has fixed elements on the outer edges of a fixed-width layout. A div in the center is reserved for the content.
When the user scrolls, I want all of the content (besides said fixed outer navigation elements) to stay within the borders of that center element.
Here's a quick mockup of what I mean:
I could very easily set the overflow property of the center element to auto, and have everything remain inside. However, it's very important that a scroll bar not be present on the edge of that element.
Basically, I'm wondering how to either:
Restrict content to that area
(perhaps I could change the size and
positioning of the body element -- is
that allowed? -- and then position
the fixed elements outside of the
body.
Hide the scroll bar that appears
inside the div when using
overflow:auto
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
If possible, you should break your fixed position elements up into 4 separate sections (top, left, right and bottom). Then just make sure you pad you centre content area by their respective widths and heights so the content doesn't get overlapped:
HTML
<!-- 4 fixed position elements that will overlap your content -->
<div id="top"></div>
<div id="left"></div>
<div id="right"></div>
<div id="bottom"></div>
<div id="content">
<!-- Your content -->
</div>
CSS
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#top, #left, #right, #bottom {
position: fixed;
left: 0;
top: 0;
z-index: 2;
background: red;
}
#top, #bottom {
width: 100%;
height: 20px;
}
#bottom {
top: auto;
bottom: 0;
}
#left, #right {
height: 100%;
width: 20px;
}
#right {
left: auto;
right: 0;
}
#content {
position: relative;
z-index: 1;
padding: 25px; /* prevent content from being overlapped */
}
You can see it in action here.
Also note the position: relative on the content area. This is so z-index works correctly and the content is displayed below the fixed sections.
If you care about IE6/7 support, you'll need to add a CSS expression fix to get fixed position working properly in those awesome browsers.