Sent by Pabini Gabriel-Petit on 7 January 2005 12:12
Hi Steve
Thanks for your suggestions. I think I've tried everything you
mentioned, but I wasn't able to get it to work. :-(
Pabini
On Thu, 6 Jan 2005 09:24:08 -0500, Steve Clay [EMAIL-REMOVED]> wrote:
> Wednesday, January 5, 2005, 7:17:50 PM, Pabini Gabriel-Petit wrote:
> PGP> Can you please tell me how I can make Web pages on which the content
> PGP> is short extend to the bottom of the browser window? At the very
> PGP> least, the footer bar should always appear at the bottom of the
>
> Here's a loose strategy for at least getting the footer down there:
>
> 1. Stretch your outermost container to the height of the viewport.
> Use a standards mode doctype and give HTML, BODY and your big container
> height:100%.
> 2. Reserve space in the bottom of the container for the footer with bottom
> padding. Yes, you'll have to guess the height of your footer, but you
> can at least use ems.
> 3. Absolutely position your footer to the bottom of the container.
> Give your big container position:relative and the footer something like:
> #footer {position:absolute; bottom:0; left:0; right:0;}
>
> 4. Test, test, test. I've seen these constructions out there but haven't
> used one myself. I believe if you remove the overflow stuff, this is
> probably similar and might have some documented bug fixes:
>
> Regardless, you can hit up the list for bug squashing.
>
> As for the other stuff bottom-aligning, this can probably only be done in
> CSS layout with the table display properties emulating an old-school table
> layout, so, it's probably not worth the trouble.
>
> HTH,
> Steve
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