Question

James here! I’ve been trying for about two hours now to get a sticky footer, but I seem keep messing up the CSS. I’m looking for a script that jQuery can handle. I understand how most of the scripts work (which is surprising, since I’m just learning), but I need the script to work no matter what the height of the footer is, because it doesn’t have a dynamic height set in the CSS file of my page. Would anyone be able to supply a working script for a sticky footer? I want the footer itself to always be at the bottom of pages, BUT NOT FIXED POSITION. The content element is #posts, and the footer area is a element with the ID of #bottom. Here is a page example: JTB Permalink Page

Answer 1

Ok.
HTML:

<div id="container">
    <div id="wrapper">
        <!-- CONTENT GOES HERE -->
    </div>
    <div id="footer">
        <!-- FOOTER GOES HERE -->
    </div>
</div>

CSS:

#container {
    min-height: 100%;
    position: relative;
    width: 100%;
}
#wrapper {
    position: relative;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    padding-bottom: 206px; /* footer height, we will fix that with jquery */
}
#footer {
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 0;
    width: 100%;
    left: 0px;
    height: 206px; /* footer height if any */
}

jQuery:

$(document).ready(function(){
    var footer_height=$("#footer").height();
    $("#wrapper").css({
        'padding-bottom' : footer_height
    });
});

I must warn you, jquery .height() function may not work properly so be careful with paddings and margins (just add margin/padding values to ‘footer_height’ and you should be fine).