CSS - 5 Column Layout: Footer Won't Stay At Bottom!

Hello! I am in need of some help with my css. I know, I am a total newbie but need some help with getting the css working properly. It seems that some parts work for IE and other parts work for Firefox. It seems like my left bar shows differently in IE and Firefox. Furthermore I have checked with IE on Mac and the main body doesn't show correctly either. It is displayed too short, doesn't fill the box. If anyone please could take a look at the code and see if they can help me I would appreciate it.

Please anyone help me. You can see the page at:
http://www.galakse.no/test/index.php/tscm/news
The css is located he
http://www.galakse.no/test/design/tscm/stylesheets/tscm.css

Any and all help is very much appreciated!

Thank you!

Hi, I'm working on a website for a church and we're near completion, but I'm having trouble getting the site to display properly in IE7 on Windows XP and a few other browsers according to browsershots.org. CSS and XHTML both validate at w3c.org. I've ripped this thing apart and put it back together with no luck. The really weird thing is the Home page looks fine, but in the rest of the pages the body content gets pushed below the left and right navigation bars. Is it a CSS float problem? Margins or paddings???

Home page: Looks OK in IE7, at least on my machine - http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/index_temp.php
Ministry page: Content is pushed to bottom of page - http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/mini...ns_ministry.php

The CSS files are at http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/css/main.css and http://www.stlukeslutheran.com/css/common.css.

Would anyone be willing to take a look? Thanks in advance.

I'm attempting to get a page that has a header, footer, left navigation bar with a fixed width, with a right "fluid" content section. I can get it to work by giving the main content a "margin-left" of the width of the navigation panel, and absolutely positioning the navigation. Problem is, with the navigation being absolutely positioned, it takes it out of the flow and doesn't push the container to fit its contents. I've trying playing with using floated divs, which is I'm sure the way I'll have to go, but I want the navigation bar to always be a fixed width of 175px, and I want the content section to stretch to fill the remaining space. I'd also like to make sure the content portion appears BEFORE the navigation panel in the order it appears on the HTML for SEO purposes. I'm sure it's easy using Javascript, but I'd like to do a pure CSS solution, if possible. How do I do that? Here is the link if you want to have a look:

http://www.chcs-ut.com/support.php?section=technical

hi folks,

i am redesigning my homepage and i have one little problem in IE. The footer i have will not stay down at the bottom of the screen in IE. Firefox works just fine like usual.
Here is the original site
Here is the new design

I changed the design, so that it is easier to read and scroll - some people reviewed my page and i think that makes sence.

if someone could help me with that problem, that would be great .... i think IE puts the footer right underneath the navigationbox to the left, thats why it is up there ....
i tried to set the position of the footer 'fixed', but it didn't look right in FF nor IE (when scrolling it somehw moved with the overall picture)

the footer in the CSS is called #verify .....

Thank you

i am trying to use CSS to position an embeded .swf rotating cube so that it is always at the bottom of a webpage and is unaffected by scrolling. i've managed to make it start out at the bottom but it always scrolls up with the scroll bar.

i realize ie6 has trouble with fixed postioning, so i was wondering if anyone had any ideas on how to get around it without using javascript?

here's my page:

http://www.myspace.com/marx0i0

and here are some examples of what im trying to do:

http://bonrouge.com/test/fixed.htm
http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/fixedPosition.html

finally, here is my code:

<embed allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal"
SRC="http://www.geocities.com/marx0i0/untitled.swf" HEIGHT=200 WIDTH=200 STYLE= "position: absolute; center:0px; bottom: 0px; overflow: auto;" WMODE= "transparent">

thanks very much for any help!

Hi all,

I've tried searching around for this issue, but I've not found any help so far and it's driving me nuts. I hope someone here can advise.

This is an abridged version of the site's code for example:
Code:

<style type="text/css">
<!--
#main1 {
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}

#left {
	width:260px;
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	float: left;
}
#left-top {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-top-left.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	background-position: center top;
	height: 16px;
	margin: 0px;
	padding: 0px;
}
#left-middle {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-middle-left.gif);
	background-repeat: repeat-y;
	padding-right: 20px;
	padding-left: 20px;
	padding-bottom: 2px;
}
#left-bottom {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-bottom-left.gif);
	background-position: center;
	height: 18px;
}
#logo {
	background-image: url(../images/swalingslogo.gif);
	background-position: center top;
	width: 260px;
	height: 120px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
/* Navigation List */
#navlist
{
	padding-left: 0;
	margin-bottom:10px;
	width: 217px;
}
#navlist li
{
	list-style: none;
	margin-bottom:4px;
	padding: 0;
	font-size:1.2em;
	line-height:1.8em;
	width:217px;
	height:32px;
	background-image:url(../images/nav2.gif);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: 0;
	margin-left: 0;
}
#navlist li a:link, #navlist li a:visited {
	display:block;
	text-decoration: none;
	color:#039;
	width:207px;
	height:32px;
	font-weight:bold;
	padding-top: 2px;
	padding-right: 5px;
	padding-bottom: 2px;
	padding-left: 5px;
}
#navlist li a:hover { 
	text-decoration: none;
	color:#FF6600;
}
/* Testimonials */
div#fscroller {
	width:200px;
	height:200px;
	background-image:url(../images/bg-testimonials.gif);
	background-repeat:no-repeat;
	margin-left:8px;
}
div#fscroller p {
	margin-left: 10px;
	margin-right: 10px;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-bottom: 5px;
}

/* Middle Column */
#middle {
	margin-top: 0;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-left: 0px;
	padding-top: 0px;
	text-align: justify;
	margin-left: 260px;
}
#middle #top-left {
	background-image: url(../images/panel-top-rightleft.gif);
	height: 16px;
	font-size: 2px;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
}
#middle #top-right {
	float: right;
	margin-top: -16px;
	background-image: url(../images/panel-top-rightright.gif); 
	height: 16px; 
	width: 20px;
	font-size: 2px;
}
#middle a {
	color: #003399;
}
#middle a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
/** Country Titles **/
#middle h2#unitedkingdom {
	background-image: url(../images/title-unitedkingdom.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 26px;
	width: 201px;
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}
#middle h2#antigua {
	background-image: url(../images/title-antigua.gif);
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 26px;
	width: 128px;
	margin-top: 16px;
	margin-bottom: 6px;
}
/* Minisite Links */
div.minisite {
	float: left;
}
div.minisite span {
	display: none;
}
div.minisite a {
	background-position: top;
	background-repeat: no-repeat;
	height: 168px;
	width: 190px;
	display: block;
}
div.minisite a:hover {
	background-position: bottom;
}
a#minisite-swimminglessons {
	background-image: url(../images/swimming-lessons-uk.jpg);
}

.clear {
	clear:both;
}
.hidden {
	display: none;
}

.notopgap {
	margin-top: 0;
}

.nobottomgap {
	margin-bottom: 0;
}
.inside {
	background: #EFEFEF;
	padding-left: 10px;
	padding-right: 10px;
}
-->
</style>
<div id="main1">
<div id="left">
<!-- Logo -->
<div id="logo"></div>
		
<div id="left-top"></div>
<div id="left-middle">

<!-- Navigation -->
<!--#include file="../inc/nav2.asp" -->

<!-- Testimonials -->
<!--#include file="../inc/testimonials.asp" -->
<!--#include file="../inc/special-offers.asp" -->
</div>
<div id="left-bottom"></div>
</div>
	
<!-- Middle Column -->
<a name="skipnav" class="hidden"></a>
<div id="middle">
	
<div class="top-left"></div><div class="top-right"></div>
<div class="insideleft"><div class="insideright"><div class="inside"><div class="gap-saver"></div>
	
<!-- UK Sites -->
<h2 id="unitedkingdom"><span class="hidden">United Kingdom</span></h2>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swimming Lessons</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Training</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Residential Courses</span></a></div>

<div class="clear"></div>

<!-- Antigua Sites -->
<h2 id="antigua"><span class="hidden">Antigua</span></h2>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Soccer</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Parties and Events</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings International School of Swimming</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Babysitting and Nanny Agency</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings School of Rugby</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings School of Volleyball</span></a></div>
<div class="minisite"><a id="minisite-swimminglessons" href="(URL address blocked: See forum rules)"><span>Swalings Training</span></a></div>
			
<div class="clear"></div>
			
<div class="gap-saver"></div>
</div></div></div>
<div class="bottom-left"></div><div class="bottom-right"></div>
	
</div>	
<!-- End Middle Column -->
	
</div>

I've placed the Country Title in an H2 tag, then beneath that, each anchor is enclosed in a DIV, and is set as a left-floated block. Then I placed a spacer DIV (clear: both) to create a new line, then repeated with H2 and links.

This all works fine in Firefox, IE7 and Opera, but of course IE6 is being a pig as usual. The spacer DIV is pushed to sit alongside the bottom of the left column, and I can't figure out how to (or if I can) stop this.

I can't add in links properly, so I hope this is acceptable under the rules --
The site in question is: www.swalings .com/swalings/index4.asp
and here's a screenshot of IE6 behaviour: www.swalings .com/images/swalings-ie6-troubleshoot.jpg

Hopefully that's enough information to go on, please let me know if there's something I missed out.

Thanks a lot!

Rob

I'm having trouble with my website structure... view this page for an example...

css is here...

The Footer (which currently consists just of the validation images) is suppossed to be at the bottom of the page...

It works in IE except there is a little line between the images (it is also part of the link...), and it doesn't work at all in FF...

how do I get rid of the line in IE, and what do I need to add or change in my css to get it to be viewed properly in FF?

Thanks
Bryan

hi all, right have got a problem which has been bugging me for days now. i have 4 columns in a row (inside a wapper div)which all will have different content image, text other divs/classes etc. now one of these columns will be quite fluid as it will have different text on each page meaning it will be quite long on some pages not on others. the problem i am getting is in the good browsers firefox etc its ok in IE6+. the wapper does'nt seem to see the divs in the content meaning it does not get filled, meaning that the footer flys to the top and not where it should be, i dont have a live version but heres the code: mainly thanks Dan

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
<!--
#con {
width:940px;
height:400px;
background-color:#00FFFF;
}
#wapper {
width:940px;
background-color:#006666;
}
#box {
width:940px;
background-color:#000033;
height:40px;
}
#menu-pronuptia {
width:185px;
background-color:#6633CC;
float:left;
display:inline;
}
#menu-pronuptia1 {
width:185px;
background-color:#009900;
display:inline;
float:left;
}
#menu-pronuptia2 {
width:385px;
background-color:#0033CC;
display:inline;
float:left;
clear:inherit;
}
#menu-pronuptia3 {
width:185px;
background-color:#CCCC33;
display:inline;
float:left;
}
-->
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div id="wapper">
<div id="menu-pronuptia">
<p>test</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<div id="menu-pronuptia1">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<div id="menu-pronuptia2">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>

<div id="menu-pronuptia3">
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
<p>&nbsp;</p>
</div>
</div>
<div id="box">
<p><br />
</div>
</body>
</html>

Question title:
A 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally and let them both scroll vertically

Hello

I did try several idea's, but all failed. Then I did search the web but found a list of > 400.000 in google.

If someone is willing to tell me if it is possible and give me some directions, please do. Everything is welcome.

I got a list with 3 columns ( basically you could say I have only two columns because 2-3 could be concatenated to together, but they have a different style and justification, but I could live to start with a two column sample)

f.e
line 1 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) )
line 2 : value_one - ( some_text - value_two (right justified) )
line 99:....
e.t.c

Column one has a fixed width of 32px.
'some text' can be longer then the wide available and value_two is with 3 spaces appended to column 2. I want that column one is fixed horizontal and that the second and the third column can scroll horizontally. Of course when there are more line's then the height of the container is should be posable to scroll vertically.

Finally I need the color behind column one be different then the column 2 and 3.

So what I did create is a container with two containers where the left one has a different colour then the right one and above those a container with the list. I have overflow on auto, so I get scroll-bars when necessarily.
But my problem is that when I scroll horizontally that my first column scrolls away to the left.

Basically my question is. How can I get a 2 column layout, let only the second column scroll horizontally ( first is locked in horizontal place ) and let them scroll both vertically?

Hey,
So I have a three column layout being implemented as such:

html:
Code:

<div class="content">
    <div class="col1 column"></div>
    <div class="col3 column"></div>
    <div class="col2 column">
        <div class="header">Header</div>
    </div>
</div>

CSS:
Code:

.column {
padding: 10px;
position:relative;
}

.header {
background:#cfe6f5;
color:#416383;
font-size:11px;
font-family:Arial;
font-weight:300;
padding-left:15px;
}

.col1 {
float: left;
width:250px;
}

.col2 {
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
}

.col3 {
float:right;
width:250px;
}

The problem is that the width of the header div extends all the way to the left and right of the page when it's in the middle column, but behaves the way I want it to (extends to the left and right of the column) when it's in the left or right column. Any ideas? Thanks.
--Surgery

Hello,

I am having difficulty with the center column on the following page: http://cbo4edu.org/index2.html

I want to widen the center column so that the CBO NEWS heading touches the blue line which divides the center and right column. When I try to add width to the style sheet the left column moves out of alignment.

Any help is much appreciated, thanks!

Hi!

i'm trying to position footer at the very bottom.
this example does it as expected (if the page is longer than viewport, footer will be at the end of page):
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<title></title>		
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
		<style type="text/css">
        <!--
			body {
				margin: 0;
				padding: 0;
				font: 12px/1.5 verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
			}
			#content {
				padding: 10px;
				background-color: #ff8080;
			}
			#footer {
				position: absolute;  /* Needed for Safari */
				padding: 10px;
				background-color: #aa3939;
				width: 75%;
			}
			#footer h1 {
				padding-bottom: 0;
			}
			h1, p {
				margin: 0;
				padding-bottom: 1em;
			}
			h1 {
				font-size: 12px;
				line-height: 1.5em;
			}
        -->
        </style>
		<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
		function getWindowHeight() {
			var windowHeight = 0;
			if (typeof(window.innerHeight) == 'number') {
				windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
			}
			else {
				if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight) {
					windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
				}
				else {
					if (document.body && document.body.clientHeight) {
						windowHeight = document.body.clientHeight;
					}
				}
			}
			return windowHeight;
		}
		function setFooter() {
			if (document.getElementById) {
				var windowHeight = getWindowHeight();
				if (windowHeight > 0) {
					var contentHeight = document.getElementById('content').offsetHeight;
					var footerElement = document.getElementById('footer');
					var footerHeight  = footerElement.offsetHeight;
					if (windowHeight - (contentHeight + footerHeight) >= 0) {
						footerElement.style.position = 'absolute';
						footerElement.style.top = (windowHeight - footerHeight) + 'px';
					}
					else {
						footerElement.style.position = 'static';
					}
				}
			}
		}
		window.onload = function() {
			setFooter();
		}
		window.onresize = function() {
			setFooter();
		}
		//-->
		</script></head><body>
		<div id="content">
			<h1>Content</h1>
			<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
		</div>
		<div style="position: absolute; top: 810px;" id="footer">
			<h1>Footer</h1>
		</div>
	</body></html>

but when i try to add left/right boxes, it fails. try to scroll down the page (footer is placed at the bottom of viewport, not page):
Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
	<head>
		<title></title>
		<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
		<style type="text/css">
        		<!--
			body {
				margin: 0;
				padding: 0;
				font: 12px/1.5 verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
			}
			#head
			{
				padding-left:20px;
				padding-top:20px;
				padding-right:20px;
				background-color: #FFF;
				background-image: url('/public/images/header-background.gif');
				background-repeat: repeat-x;
				background-position: bottom
			}
			#logo
			{
				height: 100px;
				background-image: url('/public/images/header.jpg');
				background-repeat: no-repeat
			}
			#content
			{
			}
			#leftcontent
			{
				float:left;
				width:67%;
				margin:10px;
				padding:30px 30px 70px 30px;
				border: 1px solid #000;
				background-color: #33251C
			}
			#leftcontent h1
			{
				color: #936FC4
			}
			#leftcontent h2
			{
				color: #FFF
			}
			#rightcontent
			{
				margin:15px
			}
			p, pre
			{
				margin:0px 30px 10px 30px
			}
			#rightcontent p
			{
				font-size:10px;
				margin-left:0px
			}
			#navcontainer
			{
				margin: 0;
				padding: 0;
				height: 22px;
				font: 11px Verdana, sans-serif;
				width: 100%;
				border-top: 1px solid #bbb;
				border-bottom: 1px solid #bbb;
				list-style-type: none;
				background: #FFF
			}
			#navlist li
			{
				float: left;
				margin: 0;
				padding: 0;
				width: auto;
				display: block
			}
			#navlist li a, #navlist li a:link
			{
				background: #FFF;
				color: #555;
				text-decoration: none;
				padding: 3px 5px 3px 5px;
				display: block
			}
			#navlist li a#current, #navlist li a#current:link
			{
				color: #000;
				cursor: default;
				font-weight: bold;
				border-bottom: 3px solid #f90;
				background: #EEE
			}
			#navlist li a#current:hover
			{
				border-bottom: 3px solid #999;
				background: #DDD
			}
			#content {
				padding: 10px;
				background-color: #ff8080;
			}
			#footer {
				position: absolute;  /* Needed for Safari */
				padding: 10px;
				background-color: #aa3939;
				width: 75%;
			}
			#footer h1 {
				padding-bottom: 0;
			}
			h1, p {
				margin: 0;
				padding-bottom: 1em;
			}
			h1 {
				font-size: 12px;
				line-height: 1.5em;
			}
        -->
        </style>
		<script type="text/javascript">
		<!--
		function getWindowHeight() {
			var windowHeight = 0;
			if (typeof(window.innerHeight) == 'number') {
				windowHeight = window.innerHeight;
			}
			else {
				if (document.documentElement && document.documentElement.clientHeight) {
					windowHeight = document.documentElement.clientHeight;
				}
				else {
					if (document.body && document.body.clientHeight) {
						windowHeight = document.body.clientHeight;
					}
				}
			}
			return windowHeight;
		}
		function setFooter() {
			if (document.getElementById) {
				var windowHeight = getWindowHeight();
				if (windowHeight > 0) {
					var contentHeight = document.getElementById('content').offsetHeight;
					var footerElement = document.getElementById('footer');
					var footerHeight  = footerElement.offsetHeight;
					if (windowHeight - (contentHeight + footerHeight) >= 0) {
						footerElement.style.position = 'absolute';
						footerElement.style.top = (windowHeight - footerHeight) + 'px';
					}
					else {
						footerElement.style.position = 'static';
					}
				}
			}
		}
		window.onload = function() {
			setFooter();
		}
		window.onresize = function() {
			setFooter();
		}
		//-->
		</script></head><body>
		<div id="content">
			<div id="head">
				<div id="logo">
				</div>
			</div>
			<div id="navcontainer">
				<ul id="navlist">
				<li><a href="/">home</a></li><li><a href="/mix/" id="current">mixes</a></li><li><a href="/gallery/">gallery</a></li><li><a href="/contact/">contact</a></li></ul>
	
			</div><br/>
			<div id="leftcontent">
				<h1>My Mixes</h1>
				<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
			</div>
			<div id="rightcontent">
				right side
			</div>
		</div>
		<div style="position: absolute; top: 810px;" id="footer">
			<h1>Footer</h1>
		</div>
	</body>
</html>

how may i fix it?
thanx!

I've attached a *.gif picture of how my site looks. It is completely coded in CSS. The footer just lies underneath the content, and I want to be able to move the footer to the bottom of the page. Below the sidebar.

Does anybody know how to do this?

Any help would be appreciated. Thank you!

I believe this has been asked before, but I'm unsure what search terms to use...

Basic one column CSS layout. How to keep the footer at the bottom of the window even when content doesn't reach that far?