Keep footer at the bottom

I have a layout where the footer is inside the body, because i have a sidebar 100% height.

The fact is that I need to keep the footer at the bottom when the height of the body content is less than the screen height.

Here I attach a Fiddle example where can be seen that the footer is just below the last line of the body.

Also, when the body content height is higher than screen height, the footer should follow the last line.

HTML:

<div id="header">GENERAL HEADER</div> <div id="main_body">
    <div id="sidebar">SIDE</div>
    <div id="body">
        the content
        <div class="footer">general footer</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

*           {margin:0; padding:0;}
html        {overflow: hidden;font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:100;}
body        {background:#fff; position:absolute; width:100%; height:100%;overflow: auto;}
#main_body  {
    background:#fff;
    height:100%;
    padding:50px 0 0;
    box-sizing:border-box;
    width:100%;
    min-width:900px;
}
#header     {
  background:#119911;
  position:absolute;
  width:100%;
  min-width:960px;
  height:50px;
  display:flex;
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -moz-box;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  -webkit-flex-flow: row nowrap;
  justify-content:flex-start;
  align-items:center;
}
#sidebar    {background:#f2f2f2; float:left; width:60px; height:100%; overflow:hidden;}
#body       {
    background:#c2c2c2;
    height:100%;
    overflow:scroll;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}
.footer {
    display: block;
    width:100%;
    height:60px;
    background-color:#551111;
    color:#fff;
    border-top:1px solid #CDCDCD;
}

What should I do?

Asked By: Apalabrados

Source

Answer #1:

I have added the following properties in the class footer.

  bottom:0px;
  position:fixed;

Try this:

*           {margin:0; padding:0;}
html        {overflow: hidden;font-family: "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-weight:100;}
body        {background:#fff; position:absolute; width:100%; height:100%;overflow: auto;}
#main_body  {
    background:#fff;
    height:100%;
    padding:50px 0 0;
    box-sizing:border-box;
    width:100%;
    min-width:900px;
}
#header     {
  background:#119911;
  position:absolute;
  width:100%;
  min-width:960px;
  height:50px;
  display:flex;
  display: -webkit-box;
  display: -moz-box;
  display: -ms-flexbox;
  display: -webkit-flex;
  -webkit-flex-flow: row nowrap;
  justify-content:flex-start;
  align-items:center;
}
#sidebar    {background:#f2f2f2; float:left; width:60px; height:100%; overflow:hidden;}
#body       {
    background:#c2c2c2;
    height:100%;
    overflow:scroll;
    word-wrap: break-word;
}
.footer {
    display: block;
    width:100%;
    height:60px;
    background-color:#551111;
    color:#fff;
    border-top:1px solid #CDCDCD;
    bottom:0px;
    position:fixed;
}

<div id="header">GENERAL HEADER</div>
<div id="main_body">
    <div id="sidebar">SIDE</div>
    <div id="body">
        the content
        <div class="footer">general footer</div>
    </div>
</div>

Expand snippet

Answered By: 5eeker

Answer #2:

.footer {
    display: block;
    width:100%;
    height:60px;
    background-color:#551111;
    color:#fff;
    border-top:1px solid #CDCDCD;
    position:absolute;
    bottom: 0;
}

This will put your footer at the bottom.This is to prevent the footer from overlapping the content above it, since it is being removed from the document flow with position: absolute;.

Answered By: Nirjhar Vermani

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