fullscreen background image creates conflict with footer position - html

Question

So I am trying to do 2 things that work well on their own, but I'm having trouble integrating them together. First off, here's a link to the site: http://ericbrockmanwebsites.com/dev4
Create a fullscreen background image using
html {
min-height:100%;
background-size: cover;
background-image: url(images/bg.jpg);
background-repeat: no-repeat;
background-position: center bottom;
}
create a footer that stays at the bottom of the page, even when there's no content, which normally would require something like this:
html {
height:100%;
}
body {
height:100%;
}
.container {
min-height:100%;
}
#footer {
clear:both;
position:relative;
}
The problem is that in order for the footer to stay at the bottom the height of the html / body needs to be defined at 100%, but unless I define them using the min-height value, the background image just covers the screen as it loads. Meaning that if / when there's a need to scroll down, the background image only goes down to where the bottom of the screen was on load.
I've played around with this for a few hours, but can't seem to find a resolve. Am I missing something obvious?

Answer 1

Firstly, height and min-height aren't mutually exclusive. There's no reason you can't use both. As for the background scrolling when the page is longer than the available space, have you tried background-attachment: fixed?