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CSS

Amanda Bater
Amanda Bater
7,686 Points
Posted by Amanda Bater
Amanda Bater
7,686 Points

Sticky Footer with Flexbox

I just watched the sticky footer with flexbox tutorial and when I tried to apply what I'd learned to my own project it hasn't worked...can anyone tell me why this is?

html

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>

  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8">
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Toby Dashwood Editing</title>
    <script src="script.js"></script>
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

  </head>

  <body id="top">
    <div class="wrap">
    <header class="main-header">

          <h1 class="name"><a href="index.html">Toby Dashwood Editing</a></h1>
          <ul class="main-nav">
            <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
            <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>
          </ul>
      </header>

    <div class="banner">
      <section>
        <img class="gif" src="img/Final-Cut-Pro004.gif" alt="Final Cut Gif">
      </section>
    </div>

    <div id="container">
      <section>



      </section>

    </div>
    </div>
    <footer>
        <h3>Social</h3>
        <a href="https://twitter.com/tobycdash" target="_blank"><img src="img/twitter-wrap.png" alt="Twitter Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <a href="https://vimeo.com/tobydashwood" target="_blank"><img src="img/vimeo-wrap.png" alt="Vimeo Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/toby-dashwood-58105316" target="_blank"><img src="img/linked-wrap.png" alt="LinkedIn Logo" class="social-icon"></a>
        <p>&copy; 2016 Toby Dashwood Editing.</p>
        <div class="scroll">
          <a href="#top" onclick="scrollToTop();return false"><img src="img/backtotop.png" alt="scroll"></a>
        </div>
      </footer>

  </body>
  </html>

css

/******************************
GENERAL
******************************/

/*
* {
  border: 1px solid red;
}
*/

body {
  font-family: "Montserrat","Open Sans","Arial",sans-serif;
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
  min-height: 100vh;
}

#container {
  flex: 1;
}

a {
  text-decoration:none;
}

img {
  max-width: 100%;
}

.top {
 width: 20px;
 height: 20px;
}

/******************************
CONTAINER
******************************/
#container {
  padding-left: 5%;
  padding-right: 5%;
  margin: 50px auto;
}



a, a:visited {
 color: #222222;
}

/******************************
HEADING
******************************/

.name {
  text-align:center;
  margin: 0;
}
.name a {
  padding-left: 10px;
  padding-right: 10px;
  display: block;
}

.main-header {
/*  margin: 45px 0 30px 0;*/
  padding: 45px 0 30px 0;
  width: 100%;
  background-color: #fff;
}


h1 {
  color: #222222;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-family: "Montserrat","Open Sans","Arial",sans-serif;
  font-weight: 100;
  font-size: 1.5em;
  line-height: 1.2em;
}

/******************************
NAVIGATION
******************************/

.main-nav {
  text-align: center;
  padding:5px 10px;
  margin: 0;
  font-family: "Montserrat","Open Sans","Arial",sans-serif;
  font-size: .8em;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  list-style-type: none;
}

.main-nav li {
  margin-top: 8px;
  margin-bottom: 8px;
}

.main-nav a {
  font-weight: normal;
  padding-left: 15px;
  padding-right: 15px;
  display: block;
}

.main-nav a.selected, .main-nav a:hover {
  color: #ffae00;
}

.main-nav li a.current {
  color: #ffae00;
}





/******************************
PAGE:ABOUT
******************************/

h3 {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  font-weight: normal;
  text-align: center;
}

p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  font-weight: 50;
}

/******************************
PAGE:CONTACT
******************************/


.contact-info {
  list-style-type: none;
  text-align: center;
  padding: 0;
}



.contact-info img {
  border-radius: 100%;
  width: 80px;
  height: 80px;
}

.contact-info h3 {
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

.contact-info p {
  font-size: 0.8em;
  line-height: 1.8em;
}

/******************************
PAGE:FOOTER
******************************/

footer {
  font-size: 0.7em;
  text-align: center;
  clear: both;
  padding-top: 50px;
  padding-bottom: 30px;
  padding-left: 30px;
  color: white;
  background-color: #222222;

}

footer h3 {
  text-transform: uppercase;
  text-align: center;
}

  .social-icon {
    width: 30px;
    height: 30px;
    margin: 0 5px;
  }

.scroll img {
  height: 20px;
  width: 20px;
}

.scroll {
  margin-top: 20px;
}

/******************************
MEDIA QUERIES
******************************/

@media (min-width: 769px) {



#container {
  max-width:85%;
  margin: 50px auto;
  padding: 0 10%;
}

.main-header,
.main-nav {
  display: flex;
}

.main-header {
  flex-direction: column;
  align-items: center;
}

.main-nav {
  justify-content: center;
}


.contact-info li {
  display: inline-block;
  width: 25%;
  vertical-align: top;
  padding-right: 20px;
  padding-left: 20px;
}



}

@media (min-width: 1025px) {
  .main-header {
  flex-direction: row;
  justify-content: space-between;
}
}

@media (min-width: 1436px) {

body,
.main-header {
  max-width: 1436px;
}

}

2 Answers

Craig Watson
Craig Watson
27,930 Points

Hi,

I stuck the code up on codepen and all I had to do was ad margin-top: auto; to the footer and it worked.

http://codepen.io/Craig-Watson/pen/jqwMEy?editors=1100

Take a peak I will leave it live for a little while till you have a look.

Craig