Footer not sticking to bottom of page when scrolling

html css css-position absolute

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Solution 1

Here is JSBIN

Please modify your CSS as below

#footer {
  height: 50px;
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  right: 0;
  background-color: #00A;
  z-index: 150;
}

Remove bottom: 0; from #footer{..}

Solution 2

You need change the position to fixed

Solution 3

See my comment for an example of how to do this.

But in you situation, just put position:relative on the body.

JSBin

Them the absolute position footer will be in the relative positioned parent and will use its space, so putting bottom:0 will put the footer on the bottom of its _parent.

Some examples of elements with different positions

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Author by

Geoff

Updated on June 28, 2020

Comments

Geoff almost 4 years

I'm coding a webpage that should have a header on top, a footer on bottom, and a side column on the right side. I'm having trouble with getting the footer to be on the bottom of the page. I don't want it to be position: fixed (that'd get annoying), but I do want it to appear at the bottom of the page when you scroll all the way down. (In the case that no scrolling is needed, it should appear at the bottom of the window)

Here's what I'm using. There's probably a pretty simple fix but I don't see what it is. Copy/paste this and you'll see.

<html>
  <head>
    <style type="text/css">
      body {
        font-size: 200%;
      }

      #side {
        position: absolute;
        right: 0;
        top: 0;
        bottom: 0;
        background-color: #0A0;
        z-index: 100;
      }

      #header {
        height: 40px;
        position: absolute;
        top: 0;
        left: 0;
        right: 0;
        background-color: #A00;
        z-index: 200;
      }

      #header_push {
        clear: both;
        height: 40px;
      }

      #footer {
        height: 50px;
        position: absolute;
        bottom: 0;
        left: 0;
        right: 0;
        background-color: #00A;
        z-index: 150;
      }

      #footer_push {
        clear: both;
        height: 50px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="header">
      HEADER
    </div>
    <div id="header_push"></div>
    <div id="content">
      <h1>Content</h1>
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    </div>
    <div id="side">
      SIDE COLUMN
    </div>
    <div id="footer_push"></div>
    <div id="footer">
      FOOTER
    </div>
  </body>

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