Our mobile web application has sticky bottom navigation like the one you often find in iOS applications, and after Safari 10.3 release on landscape only it is p
There is another way of creating a fixed element at the bottom of the page:
Set the <body>
element (or whatever wraps your header, content and footer) to display: flex; height: 100vh
. Then you take the footer and set it to margin-top: auto
.
HTML:
<body>
<header>
</header>
<main>
<main>
<footer>
</footer>
</body>
CSS:
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
main {
flex: 1;
}
A different solution with the same markup would be to use CSS Grid:
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
height: 100%;
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto;
}
In order to get the best of both worlds you can wrap the CSS Grid styles in an @supports(display: grid){}
wrapper. If Grid is supported the browser will take that and otherwise will fallback to Flexbox.
The best thing using this technique is that you won't run into overlapping contents, into zooming-issues and it is fully responsive from the get-go.
There is an article on CSS Tricks about the subject: https://css-tricks.com/couple-takes-sticky-footer/
This is more a workaround than a real solution. However position: fixed
has been a problem for mobile devices for years and the best way to overcome this problem is to use position: sticky.
sticky
behaves likeposition: relative
within its parent, until a given offset threshold is met in the viewport.
From: Stick your landings! position: sticky lands in WebKit
However position: sticky
is not fully supported yet, so I would suggest to use also:
position: sticky; /* currently in development for MS Edge */
position: -webkit-sticky;
position: -moz-sticky;
position: -o-sticky;
See status here for MS Edge sticky
support status (thank you Frits)
html,
body {
height: 200%;
}
body {
background-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #ededed 0px, #ededed 9px, #000000 9px, #000000 10px);
background-size: 100% 10px;
}
footer {
position: sticky; /* currently in development for MS Edge */
position: -webkit-sticky;
position: -moz-sticky;
position: -o-sticky;
height: 50px;
top: 80%;
background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.7);
}
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width">
<title>JS Bin</title>
</head>
<body>
<footer>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
There is nothing you can do about it. Safari's landscape mode makes the container with your content going off the screen. This is not detectable and therefore not to solve. I tried to illustrate what happens:
The blue bar = Safari's navigation bar
The yellow bar = Your app's navigation bar
Instead of shrinking the container's height, Safari lets it go off the screen.