| Barry Pearson 2004-03-30, 8:09 pm |
| linzi007 wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Can anyone tell me how i can get a page footer to appear at the
> bottom of every page using css - no tables are used for layout -
> using Dreamweaver MX2004.
>
> It needs to be able to work in ie and netscape7
>
> If you would like to view the site please go to
> www.testthis.co.uk/farmhousefare/home.htm
What do you mean by "bottom of every page"? Do you really mean the whole web
page (after all the content), or do you mean the browser's viewport (window)?
In that page, you *do* have a footer at the bottom of the web page. "Site
designed by ebusiness UK Ltd". And that is how to do it - put it at the end of
the HTML. (It mostly isn't a CSS issue). On a small viewport, that footer
doesn't appear until you scroll down the page.
If you want it at the bottom of the viewport, you have problems. If you want
it stuck there even if the content of the web page is more than would fit into
the viewport, you may need frames. But everyone will warn you off frames, for
good reasons. And deficiencies in IE make it hard indeed, close to impossible,
to fix it to the viewport using CSS.
You may be better off accepting the footer at the bottom of the web page,
rather than the viewport, and instead doing something about the way the
background image repeats. Make it repeat only as far as the bottom of the
content, not to the bottom of the viewport. Then just accept that in a large
viewport, there will be empty space below a small web page.
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Barry Pearson
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