Make a fixed bar above the footer - html

Question

I'd like to make a fixed bar above the footer that says something like: "This site is in beta. Please send feedback to info#blah.com."
I'm new to CSS and struggling with this.
Here's my footer CSS:
#footer {
min-height: 60px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
background-color: #000000;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#4d4d4d), to(#333333));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d4d4d', endColorstr='#333333', GradientType=0);
background-color: #424242;
background-image: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: -ms-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: -webkit-gradient(linear, 0 0, 0 100%, from(#4d4d4d), to(#333333));
background-image: -webkit-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: -o-linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-image: linear-gradient(top, #4d4d4d, #333333);
background-repeat: repeat-x;
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#4d4d4d', endColorstr='#333333', GradientType=0);
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.25), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.25), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.25), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.25), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.25), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
box-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0,0,0,.25), inset 0 -1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,.1);
height: 40px;
}
#footer a {
color: rgb(153, 153, 153);
text-decoration: none;
}
#footer span {
font-size: 10pt;
margin-left: .5em;
color: rgb(153, 153, 153);
text-decoration: none;
text-shadow: 0px 0px 0px
}
#footer-inner {
padding: 20px 0;
}
Basically I want just a small little bar above it that is fixed to the footer and that doesn't screw up the formatting of my footer.
How would I do this?

Answer 1

As you didn't say something about your HTML mark up, I've created something from scratch.
You can set the position of #footer to relative and then create an element, that is positioned absolutely with a negative top-value. So it will always stick on top of the footer and won't affect the footer itself and neither the content above:
HTML
<footer id="footer">
<aside>This site is beta</aside>
Footer
</footer>​
CSS
#footer {
position: relative;
}
#footer > aside {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
top: -50px;
width: 120px;
height: 40px;
}
Here is a demo on jsfiddle.