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I want to have my footer at the bottom of the page. If the page is long enough, I want to have to scroll to the footer. If the page is too short, I still want my footer at the very bottom of the viewport. I don't mind the empty space.
How can I achieve this as painlessly as possible?
I tried navbar-static and nav-bar fixed and they both don't do what I am looking for. Is filling the space with a spacer div or something the only way or is there a more elegant way using CSS3 or some javascript?
Open to any and all ideas/suggestions.
This is the HTML I have. Nothing special coz I tried position: absolute;bottom:0px; and that put the footer at the bottom of shorter pages but in longer pages the bottom hangs in the mid of the page overlapping content.
This code puts the footer at the bottom of the page but in pages which are shorter than the window/viewport the footer sort-of hangs in the middle (at the end of the content).
.body
{
height: 100%;
}
.bottomMenu
{
background-color: #backgroundColor;
border-top: solid 1px (#backgroundColor - #292929);
}

This is an example from the official Bootstrap documentation.
And here is the code:
HTML
<footer class="footer">
<div class="container">
<p class="text-muted">Place sticky footer content here.</p>
</div>
</footer>
CSS
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
/* Margin bottom by footer height */
margin-bottom: 60px;
}
.footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
height: 60px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}

Considering this css:
.stickToBottom {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
}
You need to detect if vertical scroll is present using javascript :
function isVerticalScrollPresent() {
return document.documentElement.scrollHeight !== document.documentElement.clientHeight;
}
Then add "stickToBottom" class to the footer if this function returns false :
var footer = document.querySelector('footer');
if (!isVerticalScrollPresent()) {
footer.className += " stickToBottom";
}
You can ignore css code and set footer style with javascript.

Check this JsFiddle https://jsfiddle.net/LeoAref/9v0r7h9y/
HTML
<footer>Footer Content</footer>
CSS
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
min-height: 100%;
padding-bottom: 25px;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
background: red;
color: #fff;
padding: 7px 0;
text-align: center;
}
You may need to use box-sizing: border-box; if you won't use bootstrap

Hide the scrollbar behind fixed positioned div

I'm building an app in Webkit for Android using HTML and CSS. I have fixed position header and sometimes fixed position footer(based on the module). When the content is more, I don't want the scrollbar to overlay the fixed header. Hiding it behind the header will also work. How can I achieve this without fixing height for the wrapper or using height: calc(); CSS for the wrapper?
I want app scrollbar to be like this:
Instead, it is like this now:
Here is the sample code:
.header {
position: fixed;
background-color: red;
left: 0;
top: 0;
width: 100%;
z-index: 999;
height: 60px;
}
.wrapper {
padding-top: 60px;
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}
.footer {
position: fixed;
background-color: grey;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 50px;
}
jsfiddle

You said that you don't want to fixe the .wrapperheight, but I think, you should fixe it, because there is no way to hide this scrollbar behind the div header element.
.wrapper {
margin-top: 60px;
min-height: 100%;
height: 320px;
overflow-y: auto;
}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/9hy6ybsz/4/

I'm not sure if my solution gonna work for you. You need to setup the height of your div="wrapper" and add CSS property overflow-y:
height: calc(100% - (60px + 50px));
Example, where 60px is the header height and 50px is the footer height
.wrapper {
margin-top: 60px;
overflow: auto;
background: yellow;
height: calc(100% - (60px + 50px));
display:block;
}
Working JSFiddle -> http://jsfiddle.net/9hy6ybsz/1/

Create a new div tag , which acts as a parent tag.
and apply scroll for it.
then create the header div and maintain Fixed position.so you can get the scroll over the fixed DIV!

Responsive Css: Fixed Left Sidebar and Footer conflict in small screens

I need your help about this complex problem.
I have fixed header,left Sidebar and absolute sticky footer, and if the content height is smaller than browser's height, no scrolls are visible.
Html
<header></header>
<div class="container">
<div class="aside-left">
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
<p>sdfsdfs</p>
</div>
<div class="container-mid"></div>
<div class="push"></div>
<footer></footer>
</div>
Css
html, body {
height:100%;
background:#ffaaaa;
margin:0;
}
header {
background: #2f3d4c;
overflow: hidden;
position: fixed;
top: 0;
right: 0;
left: 0;
z-index: 600;
width: 100%;
height: 75px;
}
.container {
min-height:100%;
position:relative;
}
.aside-left {
background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0.8);
position: fixed;
left: 0;
top: 75px;
min-height: 100%;
width: 192px;
overflow: hidden;
z-index: 50;
}
.container-mid {
margin-left: 192px;
padding-top: 75px;
}
.push, footer {
height: 55px;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
right: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
overflow: hidden;
color: #ffffff;
width: 100%;
background: #2f3d4c;
z-index: 100;
}
#media only screen and (max-height: 690px) {
.aside--left {
position: absolute;
margin-bottom: -75px;
float: left;
margin-right: -100%;
}
}
Everything is ok in large screens, but when screen height is smaller, and the content of Left Sidebar is higher than container height, footer is overlapping Left Sidebar's content and some part of it is not visible (See the fiddle).
I need this to work also in IE8+ and keep absolute position for left Sidebar when browser height is small, so that left sidebar will be strached from top to bottom (as I did in media query).
Solution can include JS too, no matter.
Fiddle : http://jsfiddle.net/frontDev111/dqd2f2dt/1/

If I understood it right you're trying to achieve something like this.
I fixed the footer with position: fixed and added overflow: auto (to show scrollbars if needed since you hid them) as well as bottom: 55px (footer-height) to your left sidebar.
http://jsfiddle.net/dqd2f2dt/4/
(I filled it with testdata content to test how the content itself does its job)
I tested this with IE9 and it worked properly.

How to make the main content div fill height of screen with css [duplicate]

This question already has answers here:
Make a div fill the height of the remaining screen space
(41 answers)
Closed 8 years ago.
So I have a webpage with a header, mainbody, and footer.
I want the mainbody to fill 100% of the page (fill 100% in between footer and header)
My footer is position absolute with bottom: 0. Everytime I try to set the mainbody to 100% height or change position or something it will also overflow the header. If if set the body to position absolute with top: 40 (cause my header is 40px high), it will just go 40px too far down, creating a scroll bar.
I created a simple html file since i cannot actually post the entire page/css from the actual project. With the sample code, even though the maincontent body fills the screen, it goes 40px too far down (cause of the header I assume).
html,
body {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
header {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background-color: blue;
}
#maincontent {
background-color: green;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
}
footer {
height: 40px;
width: 100%;
background-color: grey;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
</head>
<body>
<header></header>
<div id="maincontent">
</div>
<footer></footer>
</body>
</html>
Anyone knows the answer?

These are not necessary
remove height in %
remove jQuery
Stretch div using bottom & top :
.mainbody{
position: absolute;
top: 40px; /* Header Height */
bottom: 20px; /* Footer Height */
width: 100%;
}
check my code : http://jsfiddle.net/aslancods/mW9WF/
or check here:
body {
margin:0;
}
.header {
height: 40px;
background-color: red;
}
.mainBody {
background-color: yellow;
position: absolute;
top: 40px;
bottom: 20px;
width:100%;
}
.content {
color:#fff;
}
.footer {
height: 20px;
background-color: blue;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width:100%;
}
<div class="header" >
</div>
<div class="mainBody">
<div class="content" >Hello world</div>
</div>
<div class="footer">
</div>

No Javascript, no absolute positioning and no fixed heights are required for this one.
Here's an all CSS / CSS only method which doesn't require fixed heights or absolute positioning:
/* Reset */
html,
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
/* Essentials */
.container {
display: table;
}
.content {
display: table-row;
height: 100%;
}
.content-body {
display: table-cell;
}
/* Aesthetics */
.container {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.header,
.footer {
padding: 10px 20px;
background: #f7f7f7;
}
.content-body {
padding: 20px;
background: #e7e7e7;
}
<div class="container">
<header class="header">
<p>This is the header</p>
</header>
<section class="content">
<div class="content-body">
<p>This is the content.</p>
</div>
</section>
<footer class="footer">
<p>This is the footer.</p>
</footer>
</div>
The benefit of this method is that the footer and header can grow to match their content and the body will automatically adjust itself. You can also choose to limit their height with css.

There is a CSS unit called viewport height / viewport width.
Example
.mainbody{height: 100vh;} similarly html,body{width: 100vw;}
or 90vh = 90% of the viewport height.
**IE9+ and most modern browsers.

This allows for a centered content body with min-width for my forms to not collapse funny:
html {
overflow-y: scroll;
height: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
padding: 0;
}
body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0px auto;
max-width: 960px;
min-width: 750px;
padding: 0;
}
div#footer {
width: 100%;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
height: 60px;
}
div#wrapper {
height: auto !important;
min-height: 100%;
height: 100%;
position: relative;
overflow: hidden;
}
div#pageContent {
padding-bottom: 60px;
}
div#header {
width: 100%;
}
And my layout page looks like:
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en">
<head>
<title></title>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="pageContent"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Example here: http://data.nwtresearch.com/
One more note, if you want the full page background like the code you added looks like, remove the height: auto !important; from the wrapper div: http://jsfiddle.net/mdares/a8VVw/

Using top: 40px and bottom: 40px (assuming your footer is also 40px) with no defined height, you can get this to work.
.header {
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
background-color:red;
}
.mainBody {
width: 100%;
top: 40px;
bottom: 40px;
position: absolute;
background-color: gray;
}
.footer {
width: 100%;
height: 40px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
background-color: blue;
}
JSFiddle

Well, there are different implementations for different browsers.
In my mind, the simplest and most elegant solution is using CSS calc(). Unfortunately, this method is unavailable in ie8 and less, and also not available in android browsers and mobile opera. If you're using separate methods for that, however, you can try this: http://jsfiddle.net/uRskD/
The markup:
<div id="header"></div>
<div id="body"></div>
<div id="footer"></div>
And the CSS:
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
#header {
background: #f0f;
height: 20px;
}
#footer {
background: #f0f;
height: 20px;
}
#body {
background: #0f0;
min-height: calc(100% - 40px);
}
My secondary solution involves the sticky footer method and box-sizing. This basically allows for the body element to fill 100% height of its parent, and includes the padding in that 100% with box-sizing: border-box;. http://jsfiddle.net/uRskD/1/
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
#header {
background: #f0f;
height: 20px;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
#footer {
background: #f0f;
height: 20px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
#body {
background: #0f0;
min-height: 100%;
box-sizing: border-box;
padding-top: 20px;
padding-bottom: 20px;
}
My third method would be to use jQuery to set the min-height of the main content area. http://jsfiddle.net/uRskD/2/
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
}
#header {
background: #f0f;
height: 20px;
}
#footer {
background: #f0f;
height: 20px;
}
#body {
background: #0f0;
}
And the JS:
$(function() {
headerHeight = $('#header').height();
footerHeight = $('#footer').height();
windowHeight = $(window).height();
$('#body').css('min-height', windowHeight - headerHeight - footerHeight);
});

Not sure exactly what your after, but I think I get it.
A header - stays at the top of the screen?
A footer - stays at the bottom of the screen?
Content area -> fits the space between the footer and the header?
You can do this by absolute positioning or with fixed positioning.
Here is an example with absolute positioning: http://jsfiddle.net/FMYXY/1/
Markup:
<div class="header">Header</div>
<div class="mainbody">Main Body</div>
<div class="footer">Footer</div>
CSS:
.header {outline:1px solid red; height: 40px; position:absolute; top:0px; width:100%;}
.mainbody {outline:1px solid green; min-height:200px; position:absolute; top:40px; width:100%; height:90%;}
.footer {outline:1px solid blue; height:20px; position:absolute; height:25px;bottom:0; width:100%; }
To make it work best, I'd suggest using % instead of pixels, as you will run into problems with different screen/device sizes.

Relative values like: height:100% will use the parent element in HTML like a reference, to use relative values in height you will need to make your html and body tags had 100% height like that:
HTML
<body>
<div class='content'></div>
</body>
CSS
html, body
{
height: 100%;
}
.content
{
background: red;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/u91Lav16/1/

Although this might sounds like an easy issue, but it's actually not!
I've tried many things to achieve what you're trying to do with pure CSS, and all my tries were failure. But.. there's a possible solution if you use javascript or jquery!
Assuming you have this CSS:
#myheader {
width: 100%;
}
#mybody {
width: 100%;
}
#myfooter {
width: 100%;
}
Assuming you have this HTML:
<div id="myheader">HEADER</div>
<div id="mybody">BODY</div>
<div id="myfooter">FOOTER</div>
Try this with jquery:
<script>
$(document).ready(function() {
var windowHeight = $(window).height();/* get the browser visible height on screen */
var headerHeight = $('#myheader').height();/* get the header visible height on screen */
var bodyHeight = $('#mybody').height();/* get the body visible height on screen */
var footerHeight = $('#myfooter').height();/* get the footer visible height on screen */
var newBodyHeight = windowHeight - headerHeight - footerHeight;
if(newBodyHeight > 0 && newBodyHeight > bodyHeight) {
$('#mybody').height(newBodyHeight);
}
});
</script>
Note: I'm not using absolute positioning in this solution, as it might look ugly in mobile browsers

This question is a duplicate of Make a div fill the height of the remaining screen space and the correct answer is to use the flexbox model.
All major browsers and IE11+ support Flexbox. For IE 10 or older, or Android 4.3 and older, you can use the FlexieJS shim.
Note how simple the markup and the CSS are. No table hacks or anything.
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0; padding: 0; /* to avoid scrollbars */
}
#wrapper {
display: flex; /* use the flex model */
min-height: 100%;
flex-direction: column; /* learn more: http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/sticky-footer/ */
}
#header {
background: yellow;
height: 100px; /* can be variable as well */
}
#body {
flex: 1;
border: 1px solid orange;
}
#footer{
background: lime;
}
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="header">Title</div>
<div id="body">Body</div>
<div id="footer">
Footer<br/>
of<br/>
variable<br/>
height<br/>
</div>
</div>
In the CSS above, the flex property shorthands the flex-grow, flex-shrink, and flex-basis properties to establish the flexibility of the flex items. Mozilla has a good introduction to the flexible boxes model.

Can I use `overflow: scroll` on a div with variable height?

Is it possible to use overflow: scroll on a div that has height set to auto?
I have a div with an unordered list inside of it. The amount of items in the list is variable so there is no way I can use a fixed height. The div that contains the unordered list is where the scrollbars need to be, here is my code:
#page {
height: auto; /* default */
overflow-y: scroll;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
As stated, the unordered list is contained within the #page div. The height of the page is assigned by the unordered list's value. Is there a way to make overflow: scroll work on a div with variable height like this or must I use JavaScript to do this?
Thanks

One way of approaching this design...
Suppose that you have the following HTML:
<div class="main">
<div class="inner">
<ul>
<li>Some list items...</li>
...
</ul>
</div>
</div>
The .main block is fitted to the page, for example, by absolute positioning:
.main {
border: 2px dashed blue;
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
}
The .inner block holds the navigation list that can cause scrolling:
.inner {
border: 2px dotted red;
position: absolute;
top: 10px;
bottom: 10px;
left: 10px;
right: 10px;
overflow-y: scroll;
}
In this example, I constrain the height of the .inner block to fit within .main,
and set overflow-y: scroll, which creates a scroll bar contained within the edges
of the container block.
You may have to adapt this to your mobile platform, but the concept should still apply.
Demo fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/audetwebdesign/ac4xT/

Simply put, if it has variable height (auto), it will never have overflow in the y axis (vertically), because the div will always grow to fit its contents.
overflow: scroll will force it to present a scrollbar, but it will always be disabled, because the contents will never extend beyond the displayed pane.
If you want vertical scrolling, you have to define a height, either in px, %, or em.
If you do height: 100%, the div will fill the height of the page, and scroll content that extends beyond the window's viewport height.
If you have a header area, try something like this:
body {
margin: 0;
}
#header {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 40%;
background-color: #ccc;
}
#body {
position: absolute;
top: 40%;
width: 100%;
height: 60%;
overflow-y: auto;
background-color: #eee;
}
<body>
<div id="header">
<p>Header</p>
</div>
<div id="body">
<p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p>
<p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p>
</div>
</body>
For a fixed-height header (per the comments), use absolute positioning with a top and botom value to position the scrollable div below it:
body {
margin: 0;
}
#header {
position: absolute;
width: 100%;
height: 60px;
background-color: #ccc;
}
#body {
position: absolute;
top: 60px;
bottom: 0px;
width: 100%;
overflow-y: auto;
background-color: #eee;
}
<body>
<div id="header">
<p>Header</p>
</div>
<div id="body">
<p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p>
<p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p><p>Body</p>
</div>
</body>

Why not use max-height on the div?
max-height sets the maximum height to which an element can expand. I suppose what you want is the div to never go out of the screen. So you can set a max-height and then overflow: auto;