Sticky Footer and Transparent Header - CSS-Tricks

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February 1, 2010 at 1:10 pm #27824

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Hello,

I am desperately trying to be a good designer and use CSS layouts and doing ok (thanks to awesome community forums), but I am in need of a leg up.

I love the Sticky Footer solution found at http://www.cssstickyfooter.com. I am trying to use it on a site but I’m hitting a little wall. I have set a repeating background image in my body and I’m using a transparent .png in my header. I know need to set a background color that will reach all the way down to my footer that doesn’t show up under my header. Here’s the site… http://www.aband3.com.

Last night I dreamed about maybe putting my header outside of the wrapper, that way I could just assign the wrapper a background color, but that didn’t work (at least for me).

Do you need to see my code?

Thanks,

Steffany

February 1, 2010 at 1:28 pm #70319

TheDoc

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I’m not sure I understand your problem. Do you have a screenshot of what the site should look like? Because it looks fine to me.

February 1, 2010 at 2:07 pm #70343

with2fs

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There, I removed the graphics on the site to show that if the content is just a line or two, the background color doesn’t go all the way to the footer.

http://www.aband3.com

February 1, 2010 at 10:01 pm #70368

truth04

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Give this a try :D

CSS:

* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

html, body { 
                 height: 100%; 
                 text-align: center;
                  }

body  {
             background-image: url(../yellow_back.png); 
           }
#wrap { height: auto;
            min-height: 100%;
           }
#outer { 
            text-align: left; 
            width: 900px;
            margin: 0 auto;
            background: #fff;
            padding-bottom: 100px;
                }

#header   {
           background: transparent url(../images/ac3_circle_header.png) no repeat scroll center top;
           height: 200px; 
           width: 900px;
           margin: 0 auto;
             }
#sidebar {
               float: left;
               width: 200px;
            }
#main   {
              float: right; 
              width: 700px; 
            }
#footer   {
              background: transparent url(../images/ab3_circle_footer.png) no repeat scroll left bottom;
              clear: both;
              height: 100px;
              margin: auto;
              width: 900px;
              position: relative;
              margin-top: -100px;
               }
/* CLEAR FIX*/
.clearfix:after {content: ".";
    display: block;
    height: 0;
    clear: both;
    visibility: hidden;}
.clearfix {display: inline-block;}
/* Hides from IE-mac */
* html .clearfix { height: 1%;}
.clearfix {display: block;}
/* End hide from IE-mac */</div>
</div>

and the html:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <title>A B and 3</title>
    <meta name="Description" content="a b and 3 is dedicated to bringing the baby blanket insustry into a new level of creativity with a dash of minky fabric and a pinch of great modern print." />
    <meta name="Keywords" content="baby, blanket, minky, modern, fabric, cooridinating, soft, twins, handmade, hand made, hand-made, custom" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/ab3_sticky.css" />
<!--[if (lte IE 6)|(gte IE 8)]>
<style type="text/css">
#outer {height:100%;display:table;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">&nbsp;&nbsp;
        Home   |   About   |   Contact   |   My Account   |   Shopping Cart

    </div>
<div id="outer">

        <div id="sidebar">
            <img src="images/ab3_sidebar_blankets.png" alt="" />
            Minky

            Chenille


            <!-- Organic

            Pieced Quilts

            Custom
 -->
            <img src="images/ab3_sidebar_gifts.png" alt="" />
            Vannah Faire

            Shower Bundles

        </div>
        <div id="main">
            <img style="padding-top:25px; padding-left:29px;" src="images/ab3_circle_divider.png" alt="" />         
            With a shorter #main div, the background color doesn't go to the top of the footer.


            <img style="padding-bottom:25px; padding-left:29px;" src="images/ab3_circle_divider.png" alt="" />
        </div>

</div> 
</div>
<div id="footer">

&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
&nbsp;
Copyright &copy; 2010 a * b * and * 3


</div>
</body>
</html>

I’ve left out the irrelevent stuff in the CSS. You can fill in the blanks. I hope this helps.

February 2, 2010 at 11:19 am #70377

with2fs

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Truth, thanks for taking time to work up a possible solution, but I’m afraid it didn’t act as I wanted it to. I really like the ‘sticky footer’ and with your solution, the footer didn’t stick, it was just pushed down. Here is you code in action… http://www.aband3.com/index-tricks.htm.

February 2, 2010 at 1:23 pm #70379

truth04

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I’ve edited the code in my above post. It’s pretty much verbatim from the cssstickyfooter website. It works for me. Give it a shot.

February 2, 2010 at 5:29 pm #70416

with2fs

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Thank you again for looking back, but I feel I am still missing something. I again posted your code solution and I think I am missing something because the white background of my #inner div is still not meeting my footer when the content is small. Did I apply your css correctly?

Here is the link again to your solution on my site… http://www.aband3.com/index-tricks.htm.

Steffany

February 2, 2010 at 6:05 pm #70418

truth04

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Try just increasing the padding on the #outer div . If you increase it too much it will push the footer down but try 40 or 50 px.

February 2, 2010 at 6:21 pm #70419

with2fs

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Is padding the only way? I was really hoping that the Sticky Footer would help me avoid adding a custom padding on each page.

February 2, 2010 at 6:49 pm #70421

truth04

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I had it working before without the extra padding but I can’t seem to find the problem now. Try using that same amount of padding on all your pages though.

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