{"id":869,"date":"2012-09-21T15:51:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-22T01:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/?p=869"},"modified":"2020-05-03T16:32:06","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T02:32:06","slug":"css-height-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymonkeydo.com\/css-height-100\/","title":{"rendered":"CSS Height 100%"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Problem<\/h2>\n<p>I have a fixed footer and some content with a background. \u00a0The designer wants the content background to expand all the way to the bottom whether there&#8217;s a lot of content or no content at all. \u00a0This seemed relatively easy, just put height:100% in the content and all its parent containers. \u00a0That didn&#8217;t work, no changes whatsoever. \u00a0Another trial and failure was to use a absolute positioned element with height 100%. \u00a0Again that didn&#8217;t work. \u00a0That just made the element 100% of the current window size. \u00a0So if the content expanded more than the window height, the background would not show.<\/p>\n<h2>Solution<\/h2>\n<p>There are many, many solutions, hacks, tips, and tricks to making a footer stick to the bottom of page. \u00a0The basic elements to making a footer stick to the bottom of a page are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Make sure html and body have a height of 100%. \u00a0I can&#8217;t stress this one enough.<\/li>\n<li>Make your wrapper element have a min-height of 100%.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have something to inside the wrapper to have it account for floating element. \u00a0(things like clear:both or the clearfix hack will work here)<\/li>\n<li>Place your footer outside of the wrapper div and set a height to it.<\/li>\n<li>Make sure you have a negative margin-bottom and an equal positive margin-bottom on your wrapper div to be able to show the footer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best solution with an example I have found on the web is: \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/ryanfait.com\/resources\/footer-stick-to-bottom-of-page\/<\/p>\n<p>Instead of using the push element you could just use a padding-bottom on the wrapper div though.<\/p>\n<p>Another older solution, but still uses the same principles is:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.electrictoolbox.com\/html-css-footer\/\">http:\/\/www.electrictoolbox.com\/html-css-footer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"line-height: 1.5em\">&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;&#8212;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Another solution where you don&#8217;t have to set the height of the footer is to use display:table. \u00a0This causes the element to act as a table and the height will truly be 100% of the page. \u00a0Simple enough, but what if you have your whole page all ready to go already and display:table screws up more than half your work. \u00a0Well, then you can put that element in a absolute positioned element at the bottom. \u00a0like so:<\/p>\n<p>#main-container-bg {<br \/> position:absolute;<br \/> bottom:0;<br \/> left:50%;<br \/> margin-left:-500px;<br \/> width:1000px;<br \/> height:100%;<br \/> z-index:0;<br \/> }<\/p>\n<p>#main-bg {<br \/> display:table;<br \/> height:100%;<br \/> background:#efebd7 url(..\/images\/main-container-bg.png) repeat-y center center;<br \/> width:1000px;<br \/> }<\/p>\n<p>&lt;div id=&#8221;main-container-bg&#8221;&gt;&lt;div id=&#8221;main-bg&#8221;&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;&lt;\/div&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[17,31],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v22.3 - 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