Question

I have a simple jQuery script which pushes the footer to the bottom of the page, even if the content is not long enough:

$(document).ready(function(){
    positionFooter();
    function positionFooter(){
        //get the div's padding
        var padding_top = $("#footer").css("padding-top").replace("px", "");
        //get the current page height - the padding of the footer
        var page_height = $(document.body).height() - padding_top;
        var window_height = $(window).height();
        //calculate the difference between page and window height
        var difference = window_height - page_height;
        if (difference < 0) 
            difference = 0;
        //write the changes to the div
        $("#footer").css({
            padding: difference + "px 0 0 0"
        })
    }
    //re-run the function if browser window is resized
    $(window).resize(positionFooter)
});

Unfortunately the (document).ready trigger is to early and dose not consider image & font loading, so the value that is calculated is incorrect. Is there a trigger that is suited for this kind of tasks?

Also the site I’m building is using Disqus fot comments, which also changes the page length again, though I think I need a call-back from the Disqus script to take that change into consideration.

Answer 1

try $(window).load()

You may also want to check the jQuery documentation on the different document loading events: http://api.jquery.com/category/events/document-loading/

Hope it helps