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Is there a correct way, without frames, or using table heights or anything,
to get a footer at the bottom of a screen if the page isn't bigger than a
screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at the bottom of the
page. If the page only takes up 50% of the screen, then the footer must be
at the bottom of the screen.

"Craig" <> wrote:

>Is there a correct way, without frames, or using table heights or anything,
>to get a footer at the bottom of a screen if the page isn't bigger than a
>screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at the bottom of the
>page. If the page only takes up 50% of the screen, then the footer must be
>at the bottom of the screen.

The correct way is to stop wanting that, allow the footer to flow
beneath the content.

Btw "page" = the whole content, use "viewport" to refer to a window's
size, "screen" = the entire display area.

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Craig wrote:

> Is there a correct way, without frames, or using table heights or
> anything, to get a footer at the bottom of a screen if the page isn't
> bigger than a screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at
> the bottom of the page. If the page only takes up 50% of the screen, then
> the footer must be at the bottom of the screen.

not any browser shows this:
<div style="position:absolute(or relative);botton:10px;">
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Jan

http://213.47.90.11

> <div style="position:absolute(or relative);botton:10px;">
.... sorry ... bottom
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Jan

http://213.47.90.11

Thanks for that. Pretty new, so excuse the inacurate wording.
"Spartanicus" <> wrote in message
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> "Craig" <> wrote:
>
> >Is there a correct way, without frames, or using table heights or
anything,
> >to get a footer at the bottom of a screen if the page isn't bigger than a
> >screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at the bottom of
the
> >page. If the page only takes up 50% of the screen, then the footer must
be
> >at the bottom of the screen.
>
> The correct way is to stop wanting that, allow the footer to flow
> beneath the content.
>
> Btw "page" = the whole content, use "viewport" to refer to a window's
> size, "screen" = the entire display area.
>
> --
> Spartanicus

"Craig" <> writes:

> Is there a correct way, without frames, or using table heights or anything,
> to get a footer at the bottom of a screen if the page isn't bigger than a
> screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at the bottom of the
> page. If the page only takes up 50% of the screen, then the footer must be
> at the bottom of the screen.

Take a look at this article at A List Apart:
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/footers/

Matt

"Craig" <> writes:

> Is there a correct way, without frames, or using table heights or anything,
> to get a footer at the bottom of a screen

No. Define 'correct' first, and why the techniques you do not wish to
employ (especially 'or anything') do not apply.

> if the page isn't bigger than a
> screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at the bottom of the
> page. If the page only takes up 50% of the screen, then the footer must be
> at the bottom of the screen.

Well, with no particular benefit that meets at least my eye, you could
do so with div soup and css, if that's the objective:

<http://sandbox.bednarz.nl/css/height/footer.html>


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Jan Faerber wrote:

>> <div style="position:absolute(or relative);botton:10px;">
> ... sorry ... bottom

Well... (a) with absolute positioning it will be at the bottom of the
containing block - which is not "The screen if the page is shorter then the
screen and the page if the page is longer then the screen" and (b) relative
positioning would move it 10 pixels from where it would be if it wasn't
positioned at all.

So neither of those do what the OP wanted (and B doesn't even come close).

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Craig wrote:

> anything, to get a footer at the bottom of a screen if the page isn't
> bigger than a screen height, and if it is, then the footer should be at
> the bottom of the page.

http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FooterInfo (the second half of that)

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