Without Using Fixed Position Keep Footer at Bottom of a Page When Scrolling

A sticky footer is always showing to the bottom of a browser window. But sometimes we don’t have enough content to lower the footer. In these cases, content hangs in the middle of the window.

In this tutorial, I will show you how to keep the footer at the bottom of a page without using absolute position.

CONTENTS

How to create a sticky footer at the bottom of a page?

Earlier we used to make a fixed footer by making the height of the <body> 100% and also set the minimum height of the wrapper to 100%.

After that, set the footer position: absolute; and also set the bottom value to 0. It will create a sticky footer at the bottom of the page.

Nowadays, flexbox is widely supported by all browsers. By using flex we can easily create a footer area at the bottom of a page. Let’s check the HTML structure first.

HTML Layout

<body>
	<div class="wrapper">
		<div class="header">Site Logo</div>
		<div class="content"> 
			Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting industry. 
		</div>
		<div class="footer">All Right Reserved</div>
	</div>
</body>
  • Inside the <body>, the .wrapper wraps the header, content and footer section.
  • The .header section will show at the top of the page.
  • .content will hold the all page contents.
  • This .footer section will show at the bottom of the page.

Apply CSS

body {
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	color: #5f5f5f;
}
.wrapper {
	display: flex;
	flex-direction: column;
	min-height: 100vh;
}

.header {
	border-bottom: 1px solid #dad8d8;
	background-color: #fff;
	padding: 0 20px;
	padding-top: 1em;
	padding-bottom: 1em;
	font-size: 30px;
}

.content {
	background-color: #f7f7f7;
	flex-grow: 1;
	padding: 20px;
	font-size: 24px;
	line-height: 34px;
}

.footer {
	border-top: 1px solid #dad8d8;
	background-color: #fff;
	padding: 0 20px;
	padding-top: 1em;
	padding-bottom: 1em;
	font-size: 20px;
	text-align: center;
}

Let’s discuss the main topic directly without discussing other non-relevant styles.

  • We have set the .wrapper display style to flex and set the flex-direction to column to make all sections are displayed vertically.
  • Here we have also set min-height: 100vh;. It means the .wrapper item minimum height always same as full viewport height.
  • In .content, we have set flex-grow: 1;. According to MDN, flex-grow helps to assign remaining space in the flex container. So the .content section will cover the remaining spaces.

Conclusion

I think this method will help you to fix the footer at bottom of a page. That’s all for today’s tutorial. If you have any questions please comments below.

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