Sticky Footer CSS Problems

CSS Sticky Footer Not Working

Add height: 100%; to #site_wrapper

DEMO

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

Sticky footer not working correctly with sidebar

You can remove width from footer and add right: 0.

footer {
    bottom: 0;
    margin-left: inherit;
    height: 100px;
    left: 0;
    position: absolute;
    background-color: lightgrey;
    right: 0;
}

Issue with sticky footer at the bottom of the page

I am amazed no one has still managed to answer your question correctly, since you've explained it so clearly.

This is how you do it using only css. Let's say this is your html markup:

<div class="wrapper">
     <p>Your website content here.</p>
</div>

<div class="footer">
     <p>Copyright (c) 2008</p>
</div>

The css should look like:

* {
    margin: 0;
}

html, body {
    height: 100%;
}

.wrapper {
    min-height: 100%;
    /* equal to footer height: */
    margin-bottom: -140px;
 }

.footer {
    height: 140px;
}

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

Sticky footer is not working

Use fixed or absolute positioning along with width

html,body {  height: 100%;  min-height: 100%;}
#wrapper {  height: 100%;  min-height: 100%;  margin-bottom: -50px;}
#footer {  position: fixed;  width: 100%;  bottom: 0;  height: 50px;  background-color: blue;}

<html>
<body>  <div id="wrapper">  </div>  <div id="footer"></div></body>
</html>

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>

CSS - Sticky footer + Sidebar Problems

Do you think you could post some example HTML and CSS you have besides just the div height and positioning?

What I was thinking is you could throw another <div> inside the sidebar <div> and set the margin-bottom or padding-bottom to 30px. I'll work on a jsFiddle for you.

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>

Footer position issue - CSS

You have many options to deal with this issue.

Option 1

.footer-container{
    position:absolute;
    bottom:0;
}

Option 2

Use a sticky footer

Option 3

html, body {
      padding: 0;
      margin: 0;
      height: 100%;
}

#wrapper {
      min-height: 100%;
      position:relative;
}

#content {
      padding-bottom: 75px;   /* This value is the height of your footer */
}

.footer-container {
      position: absolute;
      width: 100%;
      bottom: 0;
      height: 75px;  /* This value is the height of your footer */
}