How to make this Header/Content/Footer layout using CSS?
Solution 1:
Using flexbox, this is easy to achieve.
Set the wrapper containing your 3 compartments to display: flex; and give it a height of 100% or 100vh. The height of the wrapper will fill the entire height, and the display: flex; will cause all children of this wrapper which has the appropriate flex-properties (for example flex:1;) to be controlled with the flexbox-magic.
Example markup:
<div class="wrapper">
<header>I'm a 30px tall header</header>
<main>I'm the main-content filling the void!</main>
<footer>I'm a 30px tall footer</footer>
</div>
And CSS to accompany it:
.wrapper {
height: 100vh;
display: flex;
/* Direction of the items, can be row or column */
flex-direction: column;
}
header,
footer {
height: 30px;
}
main {
flex: 1;
}
Here's that code live on Codepen: http://codepen.io/enjikaka/pen/zxdYjX/left
You can see more flexbox-magic here: http://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/
Or find a well made documentation here: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
--[Old answer below]--
Here you go: http://jsfiddle.net/pKvxN/
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset=utf-8 />
<title>Layout</title>
<!--[if IE]>
<script src="http://html5shiv.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/html5.js"></script>
<![endif]-->
<style>
header {
height: 30px;
background: green;
}
footer {
height: 30px;
background: red;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<header>
<h1>I am a header</h1>
</header>
<article>
<p>
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</p>
</article>
<footer>
<h4>I am a footer</h4>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
That works on all modern browsers (FF4+, Chrome, Safari, IE8 and IE9+)
Solution 2:
Here is how to to that:
The header and footer are 30px height.
The footer is stuck to the bottom of the page.
HTML:
<div id="header">
</div>
<div id="content">
</div>
<div id="footer">
</div>
CSS:
#header {
height: 30px;
}
#footer {
height: 30px;
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
body {
height: 100%;
margin-bottom: 30px;
}
Try it on jsfiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/Usbuw/
Solution 3:
Try This
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Sticky Header and Footer</title>
<style type="text/css">
/* Reset body padding and margins */
body {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
/* Make Header Sticky */
#header_container {
background:#eee;
border:1px solid #666;
height:60px;
left:0;
position:fixed;
width:100%;
top:0;
}
#header {
line-height:60px;
margin:0 auto;
width:940px;
text-align:center;
}
/* CSS for the content of page. I am giving top and bottom padding of 80px to make sure the header and footer do not overlap the content.*/
#container {
margin:0 auto;
overflow:auto;
padding:80px 0;
width:940px;
}
#content {
}
/* Make Footer Sticky */
#footer_container {
background:#eee;
border:1px solid #666;
bottom:0;
height:60px;
left:0;
position:fixed;
width:100%;
}
#footer {
line-height:60px;
margin:0 auto;
width:940px;
text-align:center;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<!-- BEGIN: Sticky Header -->
<div id="header_container">
<div id="header">
Header Content
</div>
</div>
<!-- END: Sticky Header -->
<!-- BEGIN: Page Content -->
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
content
<br /><br />
blah blah blah..
...
</div>
</div>
<!-- END: Page Content -->
<!-- BEGIN: Sticky Footer -->
<div id="footer_container">
<div id="footer">
Footer Content
</div>
</div>
<!-- END: Sticky Footer -->
</body>
</html>
Solution 4:
After fiddling around a while I found a solution that works in >IE7, Chrome, Firefox:
http://jsfiddle.net/xfXaw/
* {
margin:0;
padding:0;
}
html, body {
height:100%;
}
#wrap {
min-height:100%;
}
#header {
background: red;
}
#content {
padding-bottom: 50px;
}
#footer {
height:50px;
margin-top:-50px;
background: green;
}
HTML:
<div id="wrap">
<div id="header">header</div>
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</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>
Solution 5:
with Grid
<div class='container'>
<header>header</header>
<div>content</div>
<footer>footer</footer>
</div>
.container {
display: grid;
grid-template-rows: auto 1fr auto;
height: 100vh;
}