Problem with CSS Sticky Footer Implementation

Problem with CSS Sticky Footer implementation

Your HTML is a tad strange. For example, why does banner-bg wrap around everything?

That said, in order to use Sticky Footer technique you need to wrap everything but the footer into a single DIV. So your <body> tag would only contain two top DIVs - wrapper and footer. All the stuff you currently have would go inside that wrapper DIV.

Note that Sticky Footer may not work for you if background images you're using include transparent areas as it relies on wrapper background being covered by the header.

Update: Ok, here's the version that works. "Sticky Footer" style sheet is taken from cssstickyfooter.com and should work in all modern browsers. I've streamlined your HTML a bit (there's no need for separate background layers based on your picture) but you can modify it as you like so long as you keep the basic structure in place. Also, since I don't have your images I've added solid background colors for illustration purposes, you'll need to remove them.

<html>
<head>
 <style>
* {margin: 0; padding: 0} 
html, body, #wrap {height: 100%}
body > #wrap {height: auto; min-height: 100%}
#main {padding-bottom: 100px}  /* must be same height as the footer */
#footer {position: relative;
  margin-top: -100px; /* negative value of footer height */
    height: 100px;
    clear:both;
}
/* 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 */ 

/* Do not touch styles above - see http://www.cssstickyfooter.com */

body {
  background-image: url("Images/img.gif");
  background: #99CCFF;
  color: #FFF;
  font-size: 13px;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-family: verdana;
  text-align: center;
  overflow: auto;
}

div#banner {
  position: absolute;
  top: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 9em;
  background: url("Images/img2.gif") repeat-x;
  background: #000;
}

div#wrap {
  background: #666;
  width: 84em;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

div#header {
  height: 16em;
  padding-top: 9em; /* banner height */
  background: url("Images/header/header-bg.png");
  background: #333; 
}

div#footer {
  background: #000;
  width: 84em;
  margin-left: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
}

 </style>
</head>
<body>
 <div id="banner">Banner</div>
 <div id="wrap">
    <div id="main" class="clearfix">
     <div id="header">Header</div> 
     <div id="content">
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content<br />
     Content
   </div> <!-- end content -->
    </div> <!-- end main -->
 </div>
 <div id="footer">
  Footer
 </div>
</body>
</html>

Problems with CSS sticky footer

The fantastic CSS Tricks website has, in their Snippets area a snippet for a Sticky Footer

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/sticky-footer/

or using jQuery

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/jquery/jquery-sticky-footer/

latest link with demo

Problems with Sticky Footer

This is a better way to do it:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">

<style media="all">
html, body {height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0;}

* html #outer {/* ie6 and under only*/
    height:100%;
}

.wrapper {
    min-height: 100%;
    margin: -240px auto 0;
}

.content {padding-top: 240px;}

.footer {
    height: 240px; background: #F16924;
}

</style>

</head>
<body>

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="content">Juicy stuff goes here</div>
    <div class="push"></div>
<!-- end wrapper --></div>
<div class="footer"></div>

</body>
</html>

The limitation of sticky footers is that the footer must stay at a fixed height. But the elements you have in there shouldn't affect the layout as long as you are careful.

EDIT: Here's a revised template with the footer elements included:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">

<style media="all">
html, body {height: 100%; margin: 0; padding: 0;}

* html #outer {/* ie6 and under only*/
    height:100%;
}

.wrapper {
    min-height: 100%;
    margin: -240px auto 0;
}

.content {padding-top: 240px;}

.footer {
    height: 240px; background: #F16924; position: relative;
}

#print_blank {
    padding-top: 0px;
    bottom: 160px;
    position: absolute;;
    z-index: 11000;
    width: 100% !important;
    text-align: center;
    min-width: 980px;
}
#logo {
    width: 180px;
    padding-top: 5px;
    bottom: 86px;
    position: absolute;;
    z-index: 9999999;
    left: 45px;
}
#nav_bar {
    padding-top: 0px;
    bottom: 77px;
    position: absolute;;
    z-index: 99999;
    width: 100% !important;
    text-align: center;
    min-width: 980px;
}
#footerarea {
    bottom: 0px;
    position: absolute;
    width: 100%;
    padding-top: 20px;
    background-color: #F16924;
    height: auto;
    text-align: justify;
    min-width: 960px;
    z-index: 999999;
}

</style>

</head>
<body>

<div class="wrapper">
    <div class="content">Juicy stuff goes here</div>
    <div class="push"></div>
<!-- end wrapper --></div>
<div class="footer">
    <div id="print_blank"></div>
    <div id="logo"></div>
    <div id="nav_bar"></div>
    <div id="footerarea">Contains other Text</div>

</div>

</body>
</html>

problem implementing css sticky footer with liquid/fluid layout

It looks like I needed to change the position of the #home, #about, #proof, and #contact divs to relative instead of absolute like I had them. However, once I do that they are no longer stacked on top of each other. Any ideas on how to make relatively positioned divs have the same (x,y) position so that they are right on top of each other? I have the top and left set to 0px for each div but theyare just layering themselves instead of stacking...if that makes any sense.

HTML Sticky Footer Problem

As I answered here, you can use http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <style type="text/css">
            html, body {
                height: 100%;
                padding: 0;
            }

            #wrap {
                min-height: 100%;
            }

            #main {
                overflow:auto;
                padding-bottom: 150px; /* must be same height as the footer */
            }

            #footer {
                position: relative;
                margin-top: -150px; /* negative value of footer height */
                height: 150px;
                clear:both;
            } 

            /*Opera Fix*/
            body:before {
                content:"";
                height:100%;
                float:left;
                width:0;
                margin-top:-32767px;/
            }
        </style>
        <!--[if !IE 7]>
        <style type="text/css">
            #wrap {display:table;height:100%}
        </style>
        <![endif]-->
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id="wrap">
            <div id="main">
                <div id="content">
                    <!-- Main content here -->
                </div>
            </div>
        </div>
        <div id="footer">
            <!-- Footer content here -->
        </div>
    </body>
</html>

You can see a working example here: http://jsfiddle.net/dZDUR/

Resize the right-hand "Result" pane to be shorter/taller than the text
to see the scroll bar appear / disappear.

As per the CSS Sticky Footer how-to, you can insert your normal
'column' layout inside the main div.

What is the correct way to implementing a sticky footer inheriting its parent width?

Solution 1 (css solution)

If you want to achieve this, just replace your footer css with this:

footer {
    position: fixed;
    bottom: 0;
    right: 10px;
    left: 10px;
    height: 60px;
    background-color: transparent;
    color:black;
    border: 1px dotted red;
}

Solution 2 (javascript solution)

If you want to achieve this just:

Load jQuery and add this into the javascript:

$('footer').width($('.jumbotron').width())

and change the footer position from absolute to fixed:

.footer {
    position: fixed;
}

Problem with CSS Sticky Footer Implementation