Fix div in bottom with a top-margin

Question

I am trying to create a contact/info div in the bottom (like the grey area in the bottom of this webpage).

My HTMl is as following:

*{margin:0;
padding:0;
box-sizing: border-box;}


body{
    padding-bottom: 0;
}

body .main{
    margin-bottom: 10vh;
}

body p{
    font-size:medium;
}

h1{
    font-size: x-large;
}

#contact-info{
    width:100%;
}

#contact-body{   
    background-color: rgb(94, 94, 91);
    color: #fff;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 100%;
}


table td{
    font-size: small;
    white-space: nowrap;
}

<body>
  <div class="main">
    <legend class="border-bottom">
      <h1> Who are we?</h1>
    </legend>

    <p>
        Som text
    </p>
  </div>
  
  <div id="contact-body">
    <div id="contact-info">
      <table style="table-layout:fixed;">
        <tr>
          <th>Email</th>
  
        </tr>
        <tr>
          <td>info@email.com</td>
  
        </tr>
      </table>
    </div>
  
  </div>
</body>

I have tried several approaches; setting display:absolute (with dispaly:relative on body) but that makes contact-body and main overlap when in landscape mode. Setting a top-margin for contact-body does not solve it.

If I remove the display:absolute the div floats in the middle with some spacing beneath. I have tried margin-bottom:0,padding-bottom:0 on contact-body and body but nothing works.

How can I create such a contact/information in the bottom that spans the width and keeps a certain margin (say 1vh) for the div above?

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 26 '21 at 05:33

You can add position: fixed and bottom: 0 to div#contact-body. To make it fixed at the bottom of the page. If you want to fix any other HTML element then try to add position and bottom to that element. But this will permanently fix it at the bottom

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

body {
  padding-bottom: 0;
}

body .main {
  margin-bottom: 10vh;
}

body p {
  font-size: medium;
}

h1 {
  font-size: x-large;
}

#contact-info {
  width: 100%;
}

#contact-body {
  background-color: rgb(94, 94, 91);
  color: #fff;
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 100%;
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 0;
}

table td {
  font-size: small;
  white-space: nowrap;
}

<div class="main">
  <legend class="border-bottom">
    <h1> Who are we?</h1>
  </legend>

  <p>
    Som text
  </p>
</div>

<div id="contact-body">
  <div id="contact-info">
    <table style="table-layout:fixed;">
      <tr>
        <th>Email</th>

      </tr>
      <tr>
        <td>info@email.com</td>

      </tr>
    </table>
  </div>

</div>

The problem is, that it is then fixed which it shouldnt - it should be at the bottom (like `position:absolute` but with a top-margin — CutePoison, Mar 26 '21 at 05:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 26 '21 at 07:18

Hope this helps, please consider using semantic tags, so everyone can access your websites

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
main {
  margin-bottom: 4rem;
}

footer {
  position: fixed;
  bottom: 0;
  background-color: gray;
  width: 100vw;
  height: 3rem;
  /* extra */
  padding: 0 1rem;
  display: flex;
  align-items: center;
  /* debug */
  border: 2px dashed;
}

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  </main>
  <footer>
    <address>
      <a href="mailto:jim@rock.com">jim@rock.com</a><br>
      <a href="tel:+13115552368">(311) 555-2368</a>
    </address>
  </footer>
</body>
</html>

Fix div in bottom with a top-margin

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