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Martin Coutts
Martin Coutts
18,154 Points
Posted by Martin Coutts
Martin Coutts
18,154 Points

How to get footer to stay at bottom of page

I just finished building a fake site but I am having the issue that the content on some of the pages is too little so there is a large white space under the footer. I have tried changing the "bottom" to 0, margin bottom to zero and I can't seem to fix it.

Any ideas? The link is below for the page as well as the git repo

http://martincoutts.com/hotelArtemis/index.html

https://github.com/martincavaliers/hotelArtemis

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

Looking at your page on my browser (Chrome), I do not see any white space. The black footer touches the bottom edge of the window.

Martin Coutts
Martin Coutts
18,154 Points
Martin Coutts
Martin Coutts
18,154 Points

On the first page it’s fine but on a few of the other pages it does it

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
231,248 Points

My browser devtools show the footer inside a div that has a 50px bottom margin, which would explain the space but I'm not seeing it like that in the source. Very odd!

But I did notice in the source that the "<!DOCTYPE html>" declaration is missing the exclamation point. Try fixing that and see if it helps.