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I am developing a site in HTML 5. I wrap all my footer content in footer tag. Like code below
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head></head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>Talking Dogs</h1>
<b><p>Humans aren't the only talkers!</p></b>
</header>
<article>
<p>Ever encountered a talking dog? I have.</p>
<p>It all happened one day as I was walking down the street...</p>
</article>
<footer>
© 2009 Woofer Dog Corporation
</footer>
</body>
</html>
However above code is not the actual site code as i can not share. Can someone please suggest me the best way to do this in HTML 5 so that it work on all major browsers like IE-6,7,8 / Firefox/ Safari / Crome / Opera
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To make a footer fixed at the bottom of the webpage, you could use position: fixed. < div id = "footer" >This is a footer. This stays at the bottom of the page.
A footer is the last element on the page. At a minimum it is at the bottom of the viewport, or lower if the page content is taller than the viewport.
The <footer> tag in HTML is used to define a footer of HTML document. This section contains the footer information (author information, copyright information, carriers, etc). The footer tag is used within the body tag. The <footer> tag is new in the HTML5.
Since the footer is a visible piece of your site, it should go within the body.
HTML5's footer tag doesn't magically put the contents at the foot of the page -- you still have to style it just as you always have. In that respect, it works exactly like a <div>, so you should treat it as such by specifying CSS to make it display as intended:
footer {
//CSS code to make it display at the bottom, same as you would have done for a div.
}
Footers attached to the bottom of the page are known as "Sticky Footers". You can find more info about how to achieve the effect here: http://www.cssstickyfooter.com/
The <footer> tag itself (along with all the other new HTML5 tags) is not there to do layout magic but for semantic purposes; ie to make it clear to someone reading the code (or more likely a bot) that the data inside the tag is footer data.
In terms of browser support, all current browsers will allow you to specify the new HTML5 tags except IE, but fortunately all versions of IE (even IE6) can be forced to allow it by including the HTML5Shiv hack in your page.
Hope that helps.
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This should get you where you are looking to go: (edited to add extra line so that code markup will show good)
The basic HTML:
<footer>
<div class="colwrapper">
<div class="fltcol">col1</div>
<div class="fltcol">col1</div>
<div class="fltcol">col1</div>
</div>
</footer>
Here is the CSS:
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0 0 100px; /* bottom = footer height */
}
footer {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
background-color: #949494;
color: #ffffff;
}
.colwrapper{
-moz-column-count:3; /* Firefox */
-webkit-column-count:3; /* Safari and Chrome */
column-count:3;
}
/* Specify a 40 pixels gap between the columns: */
-moz-column-gap:40px; /* Firefox */
-webkit-column-gap:40px; /* Safari and Chrome */
column-gap:40px;
/* Specify the width, style and color of the rule between columns: */
-moz-column-rule:3px outset #ff00ff; /* Firefox */
-webkit-column-rule:3px outset #ff00ff; /* Safari and Chrome */
column-rule:3px outset #ff00ff;
}
While people are suggesting html5shiv, I recommend using modernizr as well:
http://www.modernizr.com/
And also maybe take a look at:
http://html5boilerplate.com/
This will help all browsers render your site properly. Good luck.
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