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Posted by Vincent Nguyen
Vincent Nguyen
4,520 Points

Need help keeping footer at the bottom of the page.

I want my footer to be at the bottom of the page but for some of my pages it goes into the middle of the page and cuts into the content. The only fix I could find is turning it into a sticky footer by making position: relative to position: fixed but I don't really like the look of the sticky footer. I only want it to be seen if you scroll down all the way to the bottom of the page

HTML: <div class="footer"> <footer class="foot"> PlugIncWW | Built by <a class="me" href="https://twitter.com/realdynobot" target="_blank">Vincent Nguyen</a> <a class="socials" href="https://twitter.com/plugincWW" target="_blank"><i class="fab fa-twitter"></i></a> <a class="socials" href="mailto:pluginc.help@gmail.com"><i class="far fa-envelope"></i></a> </footer> </div> </html>

CSS: /* Footer */ .footer { position: relative; right: 0; bottom: 0; left: 0; background-color: #ffffff; border-top: rgb(201, 198, 198) solid 1px; }

footer { top: 50%; position: relative; bottom: 0; height: 30px; width: 90%; padding: 10px; margin: 0 auto; color: white; top: 50%; }

.foot { color: rgb(102, 102, 102); }

.me { text-decoration: none; color: rgb(0, 155, 202) }

.me:hover { color: rgb(0, 124, 161) }

.socials { color: rgb(94, 94, 94); padding-right: 20px; float: right; transition: color 200ms; }

.socials:hover { color: rgb(0, 155, 202) }

.socials:active { color: rgb(0, 124, 161) }

1 Answer

Sam Gord
Sam Gord
14,084 Points
Sam Gord
Sam Gord
14,084 Points

i think one way of doing this is that if the body element is the parent of the footer element, like this -->

<body>
  <footer></footer>
</body>

then u can give the body element a relative position and the footer an absolute position like this, with a height value defined for body: 

body{
 position: relative;
 height: 100vh;
}

footer{
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
  width: 100%;
}

happy coding ;)

Vincent Nguyen
Vincent Nguyen
4,520 Points

Worked on my home page but on the other pages it now cuts into the header of my page