synic

# November 27, 2008 at 10:33 pm

I’ve been trying to make this work for about 3 days now and I cannot for the life of me figure out why this is behaving like it is…

I’ve been googling how to create a css footer that will stay stuck to the bottom of the page regardless of the amount of content on the page and I came across Ryan Fait’s Sticky Footer solution and 47M’s similar solution. They both work OUT OF MY CODE, but when I implement this it seems like the footer is at the "bottom of the page" initially, but then you scroll and and realize it’s sitting in the middle of the content.

I think it has something to do with my main-content div, but I really do not know. Anyway here’s my problematic css and html:

style.css:

Code:

/* RESETS, BASIC PAGE SETUP, BASIC TYPOGRAPHY */
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
html, body { height: 100%; }
body { font: 62.5% Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #000000; }
ul { list-style: none inside; }
p { font: 1.3em/1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; }
a { outline: none; }
a img { border: none; }
/* END RESET */

/* TOOLBOX CSS */
.floatleft { float: left; }
.floatright { float: right; }
.clear { clear: both; }
.transpBlack { background: url(transpBlack.png); }
/* END TOOLBOX */

/* PAGE STRUCTURE */
#page-wrap {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
width: 900px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: 450px;
margin-bottom: -230px;
}

#header {
width: 800px;
height: 288px;
position: relative;
background-image: url(images/header2.jpg);
}

#header ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

#header a { position: absolute; width: 563px; height: 83px; text-indent: -1000em;}

#header .home a { top: 8px; left: 231px;}

#main-content {
position: absolute;
width: 600px;
top: 360px;
left: -70px;
padding-right: 20px;
border-right: thin solid #fff;
}

#main-content p {
font-size: 1.2em;
font-family: Verdana, serif;
line-height: 1.3em;
margin-bottom: 1.2em;
}

#sidebar {
position: absolute;
background: #000;
width: 300px;
top: 360px;
left: 580px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
border-left: thin solid #fff;
}

#sidebar p {
font-size: 1.1em;
font-family: Verdana, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: .3em;
}

#sidebar img {
border: thin solid #fff;
filter: alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.5;
opacity: 0.5;
}

#footer {
border-top: thin solid #fff;
height: 230px;
position: relative;
width: 100%;
}

.clearfooter { clear: both; height: 230px; }

#sidebar img:hover { filter:alpha(opacity=100); -moz-opacity: 1.0; opacity: 1.0;}

ul#nav {}

ul#nav li { display: inline; }

ul#nav li a { display: block; height: 32px; text-indent: -9999px; float: left; }

ul#nav li.about a { width: 136px; background: url(images/nav-about2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.performances a { width: 146px; background: url(images/nav-performances2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.repertory a { width: 112px; background: url(images/nav-repertory2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.auditions a { width: 113px; background: url(images/nav-auditions2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.contact a { width: 105px; background: url(images/nav-contact2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.outreach a { width: 188px; background: url(images/nav-outreach2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li a:hover { background-position: center center; }

/* END STRUCTURE */

index.html

Code:

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

• About
• Performances
• Repertory
• Auditions
• Contact
• Outreach

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Some other things: I’m sure there’s stuff I could clean up, but I’m just really wanting to fix my footer issue. My header div is so I can place a hotspot on the image. The image link right below the ud #nav is underneath my main-content div. I sort of forget how I achieved this — I just looked up "content over image css" and found a way to do it; and I know there are different ways of doing this. Can’t think of anything else to say right now. If anyone would be kind enough to attempt to help me, that’d be wonderful. Thanks.

P.S. Yay for using the blank CSS template that was on css-tricks awhile ago :P

chazzwick

# November 28, 2008 at 5:21 am

im pretty sure i had the same problem, and someone told me it was the fact i was using absolute positioning to position my elements. This takes them out of the flow of the page, and means the footer ends up higher than its supposed to. Try positioning your main-content and sidebar without absolute positioning.

synic

# November 28, 2008 at 10:33 am

Well, i made everything (except for my #header a) use relative positioning, and now the footer sticks to the bottom… way, way on the bottom. My sidebar also moves up when I have less content. I’m going to go pull what is left my hair out.

synic

# November 28, 2008 at 11:51 am

So, I made some progress. However, now my nav bar seems out of line. The only link that seems in line is the one all the way on the right. To click on the others you kind of have to put the cursor a little bit towards the top of the word instead of being able to hover directly in the center and click. Here’s my new code:

style.css

Code:

/* RESETS, BASIC PAGE SETUP, BASIC TYPOGRAPHY */
* { margin: 0; padding: 0; }
html, body { height: 100%; }
body { font: 62.5% Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #ffffff; background: #000000; }
ul { list-style: none inside; }
p { font: 1.3em/1.3em; margin-bottom: 1.3em; }
a { outline: none; }
a img { border: none; }
/* END RESET */

/* TOOLBOX CSS */
.floatleft { float: left; }
.floatright { float: right; }
.clear { clear: both; }
.transpBlack { background: url(transpBlack.png); }
/* END TOOLBOX */

/* PAGE STRUCTURE */
#page-wrap { position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
width: 900px;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-left: 450px;
margin-bottom: -200px; }

#header { width: 800px;
height: 288px;
position: relative;
background-image: url(images/header2.jpg); }

#header ul { margin: 0; padding: 0; }

#header a { position: absolute; width: 563px; height: 83px; text-indent: -1000em;}

#header .home a { top: 8px; left: 231px;}

#content-bg { position: absolute;
width: 800px;
height: 337px;
background-image: url(images/content-bg2.jpg);
top: 320px;
z-index: 1; }

#main-content { position: relative;
width: 600px;
top: 10px;
z-index: 1000;}

#main-content p { font-size: 1.2em;
font-family: Verdana, serif;
line-height: 1.3em;
margin-bottom: 1.2em; }

#sidebar { position: absolute;
background: transparent;
left: 650px;
top: 330px;
width: 300px;
padding: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
border-left: thin solid #fff;
z-index: 500;
}

#sidebar p { font-size: 1.1em;
font-family: Verdana, serif;
line-height: 1.2em;
margin-bottom: .3em;
}

#sidebar img { border: thin solid #fff;
filter: alpha(opacity=50);
-moz-opacity: 0.5;
opacity: 0.5; }

#footer { border-top: thin solid #fff;
height: 200px;
position: relative;
width: 100%; }

.clearfooter { clear: both; height: 200px; }

#sidebar img:hover { filter:alpha(opacity=100); -moz-opacity: 1.0; opacity: 1.0;}

ul#nav {}

ul#nav li { display: inline; }

ul#nav li a { display: block; height: 32px; text-indent: -9999px; float: left; }

ul#nav li.about a { width: 136px; background: url(images/nav-about2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.performances a { width: 146px; background: url(images/nav-performances2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.repertory a { width: 112px; background: url(images/nav-repertory2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.auditions a { width: 113px; background: url(images/nav-auditions2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.contact a { width: 105px; background: url(images/nav-contact2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }
ul#nav li.outreach a { width: 188px; background: url(images/nav-outreach2.jpg) bottom center no-repeat; }

ul#nav li a:hover { background-position: center center; }

/* END STRUCTURE */

index.html

Code:

< !DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

• About
• Performances
• Repertory
• Auditions
• Contact
• Outreach

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