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CSS

Posted by Alexandros S.
Alexandros S.
8,261 Points

Sticky footer still has a scrollbar

I'm currently doing the CSS Layout Basics course and I noticed that my sticky footer still has a small scrollbar even though my code seems to be the same as in the video. Sticky footers aren't supposed to come with a scrollbar when there is blank space on top of them right?

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>Best City Guide</title>
    <link href='https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Varela+Round' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
    <div class="wrap">

        <header class="main-header">
            <div class="container">
                <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>
        </header>

        <div class="container"> 

            <div class="primary col">
                <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><!--/.primary-->

            <div class="secondary col">
                <h2>Great food</h2>
                <p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread caramels toffee I love chocolate. Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum. Marzipan toffee drag&#233;e chocolate bar candy toffee pudding I love. Gummi bears pie gingerbread lollipop.</p>
                <p> Fruitcake jelly-o croissant souffl&#233;. Biscuit jujubes drag&#233;e. Sesame snaps tootsie roll chocolate bar cake tart macaroon pudding. Ice cream gummies jujubes cupcake. Cake marshmallow cookie lollipop tart.</p>
            </div><!--/.secondary-->

        </div><!--/.container-->

    </div><!--/.wrap-->

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

/* ================================= 
  Base Styles
==================================== */

* {
    box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
    font-family: 'Varela Round', sans-serif;
    line-height: 1.6;
    color: #3a3a3a;
}

p {
    font-size: .95em;
    margin-bottom: 1.5em;
}

h2,
h3,
a {
    color: #093a58;
}

h2,
h3 {
    margin-top: 0;
}

a {
    text-decoration: none;
}

/* ================================= 
  Base Layout Styles
==================================== */

/* ---- Navigation ---- */

.name {
    font-size: 1.25em;
}

.name,
.main-nav li {
    text-align: center;
    background: #fff;
    margin-top: 6px;
    margin-bottom: 6px;
}

.main-nav a {
    font-size: .95em;
    color: #3acec2;
    text-transform: uppercase;
}

.main-nav a:hover {
    color: #093a58;
}

.name a,
.main-nav a {
  padding: 10px 15px;
}

/* ---- Layout Containers ---- */

.container {
    padding-left: 1em;
    padding-right: 1em;
}

.main-header {
    padding-top: 1.5em;
    padding-bottom: 1.5em;
    background: #3acec2;
    margin-bottom: 30px;
}

.main-footer {
    text-align: center;
    padding: 2em 0;
    background: #d9e4ea;
}

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

@media (min-width: 769px) {

    .wrap {
        min-height: calc(100vh - 89px);
    }

    .container {
        width: 80%;
        max-width: 1150px;
        margin: 0 auto;
    }

  .name,
  .main-nav,
  .main-nav li {
  display: inline;
 }

  .name {
  width: 240px;
  margin-right: 50px
 }

}

2 Answers

Andrew Sena
Andrew Sena
7,851 Points

if you add a margin-bottom: -1.4em to your .wrap style this will fix the issue. The -89px in your footer height is not accounting for the 1.6em line height you added to the body style on line 9. I hope this helps.

Alexandros S.
Alexandros S.
8,261 Points

Yeah it worked, and thanks for helping :) I will remember to check for this next time when i'm making a sticky footer.

Andrew Sena
Andrew Sena
7,851 Points
Andrew Sena
Andrew Sena
7,851 Points

No problem Alex.