I'm trying to create a layout with a 'header' area which contains a logo and some links, and then a content area which needs to extend to the bottom of the page. This is where I'm getting stuck.
I've surrounded the header and content with a container div which has a height of 100%, this works fine. But I can't then get the content div to stretch to the bottom of the container div as giving it a minimum height of 100% appears to take the height from the page body, so I end up with a scroll bar due to the space taken up at the top of the page by the header.
Here's a wireframe which hopefully makes what I'm trying to achieve a bit clearer...
Here is a quick CSS example, this works, apart from there always being a scrollbar at which appears to be the height of the header area...
html, body {
height: 100%;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
color: #fff;
}
body {
background-color: #000;
}
#container {
position: relative;
margin: 0 auto;
width: 1000px;
min-height: 100%;
}
#header {
padding-top: 26px;
}
#logo {
width: 194px;
height: 55px;
margin: 0 auto;
background-color: #fff;
}
#content {
margin-top: 10px;
position: absolute;
width: 1000px;
min-height: 100%;
background-color: #fff;
}
http://jsfiddle.net/CZayc/
this works by wrapping the header and body in a div to push footer down
index.html
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">
header
</div>
<div id="main">
main<br/>main<br/>main<br/>main<br/>main<br/>main<br/>
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
footer
</div>
style.css
body,div,dl,dt,dd,ul,ol,li,h1,h2,h3,h4,h5,h6,pre,form,fieldset,input,textarea,p,blockquote,th,td {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
#header {
border-top:20px solid #fff;
height: 33px;
line-height: 33px;
text-align: center;
background-color: green;
}
html { height: 100%; }
body { height: 100%; width: 90%; margin: auto; }
#wrap { min-height: 100%;background-color:gray;}
#main {
overflow: auto;
padding-bottom: 53px; /* must be same height as the footer */
background-color: red;
height: 90%
}
#footer {
position: relative;
margin-top: -53px; /* negative value of footer height */
height: 33px;
line-height: 33px;
border-bottom:20px solid #fff;
text-align: center;
background-color:blue;
}
Make the container div position:relative and the content div position:absolute. Then give the content div top:<header height> and bottom:0
Not in a position to test this right now, but I think something like this should work.
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