Some of my webpages are short. In those pages, the footer might end up in the middle of the window and below the footer is whitespace (in white). That looks ugly. I\'d like
use min-height property, though not entirely reliable as some older versions may not support it. Throw in some javascript if you dont mind.
No it's very easy set a minimum for your body height.
like this: min-height:500px; then the min height is 500px.
Considering that all your footer is inside the <footer>
html tag, this is an easy solution using jQuery.
JS:
$(document).ready(function(){
$('body').css('padding-bottom', $('footer').height()+'px');
});
CSS:
footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
}
Check out this site. He has a good tutorial on how to do this with css.
I copied his css just in case Matthew's site is taken down.
html,
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
height:100%;
}
#container {
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
}
#header {
background:#ff0;
padding:10px;
}
#body {
padding:10px;
padding-bottom:60px; /* Height of the footer */
}
#footer {
position:absolute;
bottom:0;
width:100%;
height:60px; /* Height of the footer */
background:#6cf;
}
EDIT
Since the height of the footer is different from page to page, you could get the height of the footer and then adjust the #body padding-bottom with javascript. Here is an example using jquery.
$(function(){
$('#body').css('padding-bottom', $('#footer').height()+'px');
});
HTML
<body>
<div class="example">
<p>Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet consectetur...</p>
</div>
<footer>
<ul>
<li>One</li>
<li>Two</li>
<li>Three</li>
</ul>
</footer>
</body>
CSS
body {
min-height: 100%;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
Give this a try.
It is a copy of the styles that Github uses to keep it's footer at the bottom of a page. It is a little hacky, and requires you to know the height of your footer (which may not work for your use case)
<div class="wrapper">
<div class="content"><p>Page Content</p></div>
<div class="footer-push"></div>
</div>
<footer>
<p>footer-text</p>
<img src="http://placekitten.com/100/100" alt="footer image">
</footer>
// our page element
html {
height:100%;
}
body {
height:100%;
}
.wrapper {
background:gray;
min-height:100%;
height: auto !important; // the magic!
height:100%;
margin-bottom:-158px; // the height of our footer + margin
}
.footer-push {
clear:both;
height:158px; // the height of our footer + margin
}
footer {
background:rgba(#a388a3,0.8);
margin-top:20px;
height:138px;
}
The important things here seem to be:
html
and body
)min-height
height: auto !important
and height:100%
Hope that helps!