I\'ve browsed to all question related to \"sticky footer\" and nothing helped me because my #content div does not always have sufficient content to push the footer to the bo
I know this doesn't answer your exact question, but the work done by Ryan Fait has worked very well for me across multiple browsers. You might want to give this a try (or take a look at what he did compared to what you are doing and see if you can determine a fix).
It's actually easy, here's the minimum required template:
<!doctype html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<title>SO question 1980857</title>
<style>
html, body {
margin: 0;
height: 100%;
}
#container {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
* html #container {
height: 100%; /* This is min-height for IE6. */
}
#footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
#footer, #pushfooter {
height: 50px; /* Both must have the same height. */
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">Content</div>
<div id="pushfooter"></div>
<div id="footer">Footer</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Making the container relative
and giving it a min-height
will actually stick the footer to its bottom all the time regardless of the content's actual height, which was your major concern as understood from comments.
In order to realize a sticky footer, that is a footer placed in a fixed position at the bottom of the webpage that doesn't move when your scroll the page you can use this css code:
#footer{
position:fixed;
clear:both;
}
position:fixed makes the footer sticky anyway there could be floating problems if you used float:left or float:right in your code before, so using also clear:both it clears the floating and ensures that the footer is at the bottom under other divs and not on the left or right of the precedent div.
This will work, no matter what the height of the #container is:
CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
#container {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
margin-bottom: -50px;
position: relative;
}
#index_footer {
height: 50px;
line-height: 50px;
position: relative;
background: #CCC;
}
#push {
height: 50px;
}
HTML:
<div id="container">
<div id="index_body">
test
</div>
<div id="push"> </div>
</div>
<div id="index_footer" class="footer">
test
</div>
I believe the root of the problem is that the footer element in the HTML needs to be outside of the #container div. Also, I noticed after I removed that, issues with margin and padding on the body tag. Finally, the border-top on the .footer makes the height of the footer 46px, not 45px...
The corrected CSS:
/* FOOTER FIX */
html, body, div#container { height: 100%; }
body > div#container { height: auto; min-height: 100%; }
div#index_body { padding-bottom: 30px; }
body{margin:0;padding:0;}
#container{ margin-bottom: -46px; }
.footer {
clear: both;
position: relative;
z-index: 10;
height: 30px;
padding-top:15px;
color: #666;
background-color:#F4F7FA;
border-top:1px solid #E6E7E8;
font-size:95%;
text-align: center;
} /* END FIX */
The corrected HTML:
<html>
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="index_body">
</div><!--end index_body -->
</div><!--end container -->
<div id="index_footer" class="footer">
</div><!--end footer -->
</body>
</html>
Going off Harmen, i have tested this and it works, with the footer in the container. altho it is a little hackish
CSS
html, body, div#container { height: 100%; }
body > div#container { height: auto; min-height: 100%; }
div#index_body {
min-height: 100%;
margin-bottom: -46px;
}
.footer, .push {
height: 30px;
}
.footer {
clear: both;
position: relative;
z-index: 10;
margin: 0px;
}
.footer {
color: #666;
background-color:#F4F7FA;
border-top:1px solid #E6E7E8;
font-size:95%;
text-align: center;
} /* END FIX */
html
<body>
<div id="container">
<div id="index_body">
<div class="push"></div><!--Used to force the footer down to avoid overlap of footer and text -->
</div><!--end index_body -->
<div id="index_footer" class="footer">
</div><!--end footer -->
</div><!--end container -->
</body>