I have been using the twitter bootstrap framework for quite a while now and they recently updated to version 3!
I'm having trouble getting the sticky footer to stick to the bottom, I have used the starter template supplied by the twitter bootstrap website, but still no luck, any ideas?
just add the class navbar-fixed-bottom to your footer.
<div class="footer navbar-fixed-bottom">
Referring to the official Boostrap3 sticky footer example,
there is no need to add <div id="push"></div>, and the CSS is simpler.
The CSS used in the official example is:
/* Sticky footer styles
-------------------------------------------------- */
html,
body {
height: 100%;
/* The html and body elements cannot have any padding or margin. */
}
/* Wrapper for page content to push down footer */
#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
/* Negative indent footer by its height */
margin: 0 auto -60px;
/* Pad bottom by footer height */
padding: 0 0 60px;
}
/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
#footer {
height: 60px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
and the essential HTML:
<body>
<!-- Wrap all page content here -->
<div id="wrap">
<!-- Begin page content -->
<div class="container">
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div class="container">
</div>
</div>
</body>
You can find the link for this css in the sticky-footer example's source code.
<!-- Custom styles for this template -->
<link href="sticky-footer.css" rel="stylesheet">
Full URL : https://getbootstrap.com/docs/3.4/examples/sticky-footer/sticky-footer.css
Here is a method that will add a sticky footer that doesn't require any additional CSS or Javascript other than what's already in Bootstrap and won't interfere with your current footer.
Example here: Easy Sticky Footer
Just copy and paste this directly into your code. No fuss no muss.
<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-bottom">
<div class="container">
<p class="navbar-text pull-left">© 2014 - Site Built By Mr. M.
<a href="http://tinyurl.com/tbvalid" target="_blank" >HTML 5 Validation</a>
</p>
<a href="http://youtu.be/zJahlKPCL9g" class="navbar-btn btn-danger btn pull-right">
<span class="glyphicon glyphicon-star"></span> Subscribe on YouTube</a>
</div>
</div>
In addition to the CSS you just added, remember you need to add the push div before closing the wrap div
The basic structure for the HTML is
<div id="wrap">
page content here
<div id="push"></div>
</div> <!-- end wrap -->
<div id="footer">
footer content here
</div> <!-- end footer -->
Here's the Sticky Footer simplified code as of today because they're always optimizing it and this is GOOD:
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head></head>
<body>
<!-- Fixed navbar -->
<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top" role="navigation">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target=".navbar-collapse">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Project name</a>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown">Dropdown <b class="caret"></b></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
<li class="divider"></li>
<li class="dropdown-header">Nav header</li>
<li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">One more separated link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
</div>
</div>
<!-- Begin page content -->
<div class="container">
<div class="page-header">
<h1>Sticky footer with fixed navbar</h1>
</div>
<p class="lead">Pin a fixed-height footer to the bottom of the viewport in desktop browsers with this custom HTML and CSS. A fixed navbar has been added with <code>padding-top: 60px;</code> on the <code>body > .container</code>.</p>
<p>Back to <a href="../sticky-footer">the default sticky footer</a> minus the navbar.</p>
</div>
<footer>
<div class="container">
<p class="text-muted">Place sticky footer content here.</p>
</div>
</footer>
</body>
</html>
CSS
/* Sticky footer styles
-------------------------------------------------- */
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
/* Margin bottom by footer height */
margin-bottom: 60px;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
height: 60px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
I'm a bit late on the subject but I came across this post as I've just been bitten by that question and finally found a really easy way to get over it, simply use a navbar with the navbar-fixed-bottom class enabled. For example:
<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-bottom">
<div class="container">
<span class="navbar-text">
Something useful
</span>
</div>
</div>
HTH
Here is my updated solution to this issue.
/* Sticky footer styles
-------------------------------------------------- */
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
/* Margin bottom by footer height */
margin-bottom: 60px;
}
.footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
height: 60px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
border-top: 1px solid #eee;
text-align: center;
}
.site-footer-links {
font-size: 12px;
line-height: 1.5;
color: #777;
padding-top: 20px;
display: block;
text-align: center;
float: center;
margin: 0;
list-style: none;
}
And use it like this:
<div class="footer">
<div class="site-footer">
<ul class="site-footer-links">
<li>© Zee and Company<span></span></li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
Or
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.page-wrap {
min-height: 100%;
/* equal to footer height */
margin-bottom: -142px;
}
.page-wrap:after {
content: "";
display: block;
}
.site-footer, .page-wrap:after {
height: 142px;
}
.site-footer {
background: orange;
}
The sticky example doesn't work for me. My solution:
#footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: 3em;
}
The push div should go right after the wrap, NOT within.. just like this
<div id="wrap">
*content goes here*
</div>
<div id="push">
</div>
<div id="footer">
<div class="container credit">
</div>
<div class="container">
<p class="muted credit">© Your Page 2013</p>
</div>
</div>
Simple js
if ($(document).height() <= $(window).height()) {
$("footer").addClass("navbar-fixed-bottom");
}
Update #1
$(window).on('resize', function() {
$('footer').toggleClass("navbar-fixed-bottom", $(document).height() <= $(window).height());
});
Answered by the OP:
Add this to your CSS file.
html,
body {
height: 100%;
/* The html and body elements cannot have any padding or margin. */
}
/* Wrapper for page content to push down footer */
#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
/* Negative indent footer by it's height */
margin: 0 auto -60px;
}
/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
#push,
#footer {
height: 60px;
}
#footer {
background-color: #eee;
}
/* Lastly, apply responsive CSS fixes as necessary */
@media (max-width: 767px) {
#footer {
margin-left: -20px;
margin-right: -20px;
padding-left: 20px;
padding-right: 20px;
}
}
I wanted a flexible sticky footer, which is why I came here. Top answers got me in the right direction.
The current (2 Oct 16) Bootstrap 3 css Sticky footer (Fixed size) looks like this:
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
/* Margin bottom by footer height */
margin-bottom: 60px;
}
.footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
height: 60px;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
}
As long as the footer has a fixed size, the body margin-bottom creates a push to allow a pocket for the footer to sit in. In this case, both are set to 60px. But if the footer is not fixed and exceeds 60px height, it will cover your page content.
Make Flexible: Delete the css body margin and footer height. Then add JavaScript to get the footer height and set the body marginBottom. That is done with the setfooter() function. Next add event listeners for when the page first loads and on resizing that run the setfooter. Note: If you footer has an accordion or anything else that triggers a size change, without a resize of window, you must call the setfooter() function again.
Run the snippet and then fullscreen to demo it.
function setfooter(){
var ht = document.getElementById("footer").scrollHeight;
document.body.style.marginBottom = ht + "px";
}
window.addEventListener('resize', function(){
setfooter();
}, true);
window.addEventListener('load', function(){
setfooter();
}, true);html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
.footer {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
/* additional style for effect only */
text-align: center;
background-color: #333;
color: #fff;
}
body{
/* additional style for effect only not needed in bootstrap*/
padding:0;
margin: 0;
}<div>
Page content
<br> <br>
line 3
<br> <br>
line 5
<br> <br>
line 7
</div>
<footer id="footer" class="footer">
<div class="container">
<p class="text-muted">Footer with a long text, so that resizing, to a smaller screen size, will cause the footer to grow taller. But the footer will not overflow onto the main page.</p>
</div>
</footer>
This has been solved by flexbox, once and forever:
https://philipwalton.github.io/solved-by-flexbox/demos/sticky-footer/
The HTML
<body class="Site">
<header>…</header>
<main class="Site-content">…</main>
<footer>…</footer>
</body>
The CSS
.Site {
display: flex;
min-height: 100vh;
flex-direction: column;
}
.Site-content {
flex: 1;
}
To Summarize all of these, just keep one thing in your mind that everything except footer should have min-height: 100% or little less.
I write my simplified sticky footer code with padding using LESS. This answer is probably off-topic because the question doesn't talk about padding, so if you're interested check this post for more details.
@footer-padding: 40px; // Set here the footer padding
@footer-inner-height: 150px; // Set here the footer height (without padding)
/* Calculates the overall footer height */
@footer-height: @footer-inner-height + @footer-padding*2;
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
/* This avoids footer to overlap the page content */
margin-bottom: @footer-height;
}
footer{
/* Fix the footer on bottom and give it fixed height */
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
height: @footer-height;
padding: @footer-padding 0;
}
Based on Jek-fdrv's answer, I added an .on('resize', function() to make sure it works on every device and every resolution:
$(window).on('resize', function() {
if ($(document).height() <= $(window).height()) {
$('footer').addClass("navbar-fixed-bottom");
} else {
$('footer').removeClass("navbar-fixed-bottom");
}
});
The current version of bootstrap doesn't seem to work for this function anymore. If you download their sticky-footer-navbar example and place a large amount of content in the main body area the footer will get pushed down past the bottom of the viewport. It isn't sticky at all.
Here is a CSS based solution for a fully responsive variable-height sticky footer.
Advantage: footer allows variable height, as height no longer needs to be hard-coded in CSS.
body {
display: -webkit-box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -moz-box;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
-webkit-box-orient: vertical;
-webkit-box-direction: normal;
-webkit-flex-direction: column;
-moz-box-orient: vertical;
-moz-box-direction: normal;
-ms-flex-direction: column;
flex-direction: column;
min-height: 100vh;
}
body > * {
-webkit-box-flex: 0;
-webkit-flex-grow: 0;
-moz-box-flex: 0;
-ms-flex-positive: 0;
flex-grow: 0;
}
body > nav + .container {
-webkit-box-flex: 1;
-webkit-flex-grow: 1;
-moz-box-flex: 1;
-ms-flex-positive: 1;
flex-grow: 1;
}
/* Reset CSS and some footer styling. Only needed on StackOverflow */
body {
padding: 50px 0 0;
margin: 0;
}
footer {
background-color: #f8f8f8;
padding: 15px 0 5px;
border-top: 1px solid #e7e7e7;
}<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script>
<link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet"/>
<!DOCTYPE html>
<!-- Fixed navbar -->
<nav class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-top">
<div class="container">
<div class="navbar-header">
<button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#navbar" aria-expanded="false" aria-controls="navbar">
<span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
<span class="icon-bar"></span>
</button>
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Project name</a>
</div>
<div id="navbar" class="collapse navbar-collapse">
<ul class="nav navbar-nav">
<li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
<li><a href="#about">About</a></li>
<li><a href="#contact">Contact</a></li>
<li class="dropdown">
<a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Dropdown <span class="caret"></span></a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><a href="#">Action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Another action</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Something else here</a></li>
<li role="separator" class="divider"></li>
<li class="dropdown-header">Nav header</li>
<li><a href="#">Separated link</a></li>
<li><a href="#">One more separated link</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div><!--/.nav-collapse -->
</div>
</nav>
<!-- Begin page content -->
<div class="container">
<div class="page-header">
<h1>Responsive sticky footer of any height</h1>
</div>
<p class="lead">You can have a sticky footer of any height using this CSS. It's also fully responsive, no JavaScript needed.</p>
</div>
<footer class="footer">
<div class="container">
<p class="text-muted">Place sticky footer content here.</p>
<p class="text-muted">And some more content.</p>
<p class="text-muted">And more...</p>
</div>
</footer>And here is the un-prefixed SCSS (for gulp/grunt):
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
min-height: 100vh;
> * {
flex-grow: 0;
}
> nav + .container {
flex-grow: 1;
}
}
Just use flex! Make sure to use body and main in your HTML and it's one of the best solutions (unless you need IE9 support). It doesn't require a fixed height or similiar.
That's recommended for Materialize as well!
body {
display: flex;
min-height: 100vh;
flex-direction: column;
}
main {
flex: 1 0 auto;
}
<footer class="footer navbar-fixed-bottom">
<div class="container">
<span class="text-muted">Place sticky footer content here.</span>
</div>
</footer>
.footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
}
in Haml & Sass words all that is necessary:
Haml for app/view/layouts/application.html.haml
%html
%head
%body
Some body stuff
%footer
footer content
Sass for app/assets/stylesheets/application.css.sass
$footer-height: 110px
html
position: relative
min-height: 100%
body
margin-bottom: $footer-height
body > footer
position: absolute
bottom: 0
width: 100%
height: $footer-height
based on http://getbootstrap.com/examples/sticky-footer-navbar/
If yout want to use bootstrap build in classes for the footer. You should also write some javascript:
$(document).ready(function(){
$.fn.resize_footer();
$(window).resize(function() {
$.fn.resize_footer();
});
});
(function($) {
$.fn.resize_footer = function(){
$('body > .container-fluid').css('padding-bottom', $('body > footer').height());
};
});
It will prevent content overlapping by the fixed footer, and it will adjust the padding-bottom when the user changes the window/screen size.
In the script above I assumed that footer is placed directly inside the body tag like that:
<body>
... content of your page ...
<div class="navbar navbar-default navbar-fixed-bottom">
<div class="container">
<div class="muted pull-right">
Something useful
</div>
... some other footer content ...
</div>
</div>
</body>
This is definitely not the best solution (because of the JS which could be avoided), but it works without any issues with overlapping, it is easy to implement and responsive (height is not hardcoded in CSS).
#myfooter{
height: 3em;
background-color: #f5f5f5;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 1em;
}<footer>
<div class="footer">
<div class="container-fluid" id="myfooter">
<div class="row">
<div class="col-md-12">
<p class="copy">Copyright © Your words</p>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</footer>
Here is a very simple and clean sticky footer you can use in bootstrap. Totally Responsive!
HTML
<body>
<nav class="navbar navbar-default">
<div class="container-fluid">
<div class="navbar-header">
<a class="navbar-brand" href="#">
<img alt="Brand" src="">
</a>
</div>
</div>
</nav>
<footer></footer>
</body>
</html>
CSS
html {
position: relative;
min-height: 100%;
}
body {
margin: 0 0 100px;
}
footer {
position: absolute;
left: 0;
bottom: 0;
height: 100px;
width: 100%;
background-color: red;
}
Example: CodePen Demo
You can simply try adding a class on your footer navbar:
navbar-fixed-bottom
Then create a CSS named custom.css and body padding like this..
body { padding-bottom: 70px; }
Using flexbox is the easiest way I have found, from the guys of CSS-tricks. This is true sticky-footer, it works when the content is < 100% of the page and > 100% of the page:
<body>
<div class="content">
content
</div>
<footer></footer>
</body>
And CSS:
html {
height: 100%;
}
body {
min-height: 100%;
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content {
flex: 1;
}
Note that this is bootstrap-agnostic, so it works with bootstrap and without it.
