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CSS

Posted by Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points

create a sticky footer

I am trying to make a sticky footer. I set height: (100vh-89px) in the .wrap, but the footer is still floating in the middle. How can I fix it?

Here is my css code

/* ================================= 
  Base Element Styles
==================================== */
* {
 box-sizing:border-box;
}


body {
    line-height: 1.6;
    color: #3a3a3a;
}

a { 
    color: #000;
    text-decoration: none;
}

p {
  margin-bottom:0;
}

/* ================================= 
  Base Layout Styles
==================================== */
.name {
  margin:0;
}

.wrap {
  background-color: tomato;
  width: 100%;
  margin: 0;
  padding-bottom:2rem;
  height: calc(100vh-89px);
}

.h1 {
  background-color: #4787FF;
  padding: 0 1rem;
}

.h2 {
  margin: 0 auto;
  padding: 0 1rem;
}

.footer {
  text-align:center;
  margin:0;
    background: #6FBFA0;
  color: #fff;
  padding: 2em 2em;
  text-align:center;
  bottom:0;
}


/* ================================= 
  Media Queries
==================================== */

@media(min-width: 769px) {
.h1,
.h2{
  padding: 0 3rem;
   }
   }
}

And here is my html code

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Best City Guide</title>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>

  <div class="wrap">
      <div class="h1">
            <h1 class="name"><a href="#">Best City Guide</a></h1>
            <ul class="main-nav">
              <li><a href="#">ice cream</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">donuts</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">tea</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">coffee</a></li>
            </ul>
      </div>
      <div class="h2">
              <h2>Welcome!</h2>
              <p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for.</p>
              <p>Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet chocolate cake gummies jelly beans candy bonbon brownie  candy. Gingerbread powder muffin. Icing cotton candy. Croissant icing pie ice cream brownie I love cheesecake cookie. Pastry chocolate pastry jelly croissant.</p>
              <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll. Tootsie roll wafer I love chocolate donuts.</p>
      </div>
 </div>

    <footer class="footer">
      <span>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City Ever.</span>
    </footer>

</body>
</html>

2 Answers

Tri Pham
Tri Pham
18,671 Points

yeah, css is not a real programming language and the syntax rules can be a little unforgiving and unexpected. Add proper spacing so it looks like this. height: calc(100vh - 89px);

Grace Ji
Grace Ji
5,402 Points

Wow! Your tip works instantly! Thank you Tri!!!! YOU ROCK!!! :+1:

Simon Fukada
Simon Fukada
7,767 Points

Thank you so much for this!! I was having so much trouble, but your advice fixed my footer!!

David Low
David Low
13,475 Points
David Low
David Low
13,475 Points

Give the footer a height of 89px and it should stick to the bottom. I think it it's fine to remove the bottom: 0 as well.