Flushing footer to bottom of the page, twitter bootstrap

Question

I am generally familiar with the technique of flushing a footer using css.

But I am having some trouble getting this approach to work for Twitter bootstrap, most likely due to the fact that Twitter bootstrap is responsive in nature. Using Twitter bootstrap I am not able to get the footer to flush to the bottom of the page using the approach described in the above blog post.

Continuous

Before test all answers below keep in mind the OP wants to have it working with twitter bootstrap.As it is not a must, twitter bootstrap works with Jquery,what means it is Javascript enabled.For that reason just test my answer: #10099922 – Nichellenichol

Official example : getbootstrap.com/examples/sticky-footer-navbar/… – Acerose

Link is broken! Can anyone please fix the official example link? – Friedafriedberg

@Friedafriedberg getbootstrap.com/docs/4.0/examples/sticky-footer-navbar it may become older version in future because of 4.0 i guess. – Espionage

Link to latest version getbootstrap.com/docs/5.1/examples/sticky-footer – Parisparish

9 years old. still a huge problem. why is it so complicated to flush a footer to the bottom of a page? – Inveteracy

Answer 1

Found the snippets here works really well for bootstrap

Html:

<div id="wrap">
  <div id="main" class="container clear-top">
    <p>Your content here</p>
  </div>
</div>
<footer class="footer"></footer>

CSS:

html, body {
  height: 100%;
}

#wrap {
  min-height: 100%;
}

#main {
  overflow:auto;
  padding-bottom:150px; /* this needs to be bigger than footer height*/
}

.footer {
  position: relative;
  margin-top: -150px; /* negative value of footer height */
  height: 150px;
  clear:both;
  padding-top:20px;
} 

Zennie

This is the best solution I have attempted so far. Accepted this as the answer. – Continuous

Hi, I've implement this method, it works great but now I've got some problems with displaying page on iphone (page is zoomed in). Any ideas what is the problem? Here is some details: #18621590 – Telemachus

Just in case you've read this answer and not scrolled down it's worth looking at the other answers – Sulfapyridine

especialy this one: #10099922 – Nichellenichol

This is best method I have found for Bootstrap. For device responsiveness remember to use media queries to update #main and .footer heights for different screen sizes – Crony

a big problem with this is you are assigning a height to the footer so it is no longer responsive. you need to let the content set the height. and control the change to 100% width for each column at the specific media query with your padding and margin – Nika

How about giving padding-bottom:150px; to #wrap instead of #main ? – Puttee

You could use relative units for the height of the footer if device responsiveness is needed, like em for example: w3schools.com/cssref/css_units.asp – Biliary

This is the best answer that does not force sticky footer. Works great with Bootstrap! – Ancalin

The links are broken nowadays. – Theron

Incase using HAML please use the this code it works like charm %footer.card.text-center – Multi

Flexible footer height, vanilla Boostrap, no JS solution: https://mcmap.net/q/67940/-flushing-footer-to-bottom-of-the-page-twitter-bootstrap – Rosena

Answer 2

This is now included with Bootstrap 2.2.1.

Bootstrap 3.x

Use the navbar component and add .navbar-fixed-bottom class:

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-bottom"></div>

Bootstrap 4.x

<div class="navbar fixed-bottom"></div>

Don't forget to add body { padding-bottom: 70px; } or otherwise the page content may be covered.

Docs: http://getbootstrap.com/components/#navbar-fixed-bottom

Scintilla

@ChuanYeong Unfortunately there is no navbar-static-bottom. – Brok

@LawrenceWoodman Uugh just realized that. My mistake. Turns out I've more or less implemented sticky footer before putting in navbar-static-bottom. So I thought the class actually works..holy crap. Oh and, navbar-fixed-bottom isn't really what the OP was asking for anyway – Zennie

@MikeCurry he not asked about a fixed footer, but a one that "fills" the empty space, if your page don't have enough content to make the footer stays at bottom. If your footer is only informational, a fixed one is only taking valuable space. – Caiaphas

He says he is not able to flush the footer to the bottom of the page, which is what this technique does. – Scintilla

This is not sticky footer, because it is used position:fixed; which is not right – Stoddart

Yep this solution only flushes to the bottom of the viewport not the bottom of the page. i.e. the footer is always visible. – Eggleston

Had to downvote the answer because it give confusion.The OP not wants a sticky footer. – Nichellenichol

I am using Bootstrap v3.3.1, and still there is no navbar-bottom for sticky behaviour. Two divs are the way to go (didn't downvote as this answer is still useful). – Heave

This one gives fixed footer so be careful if you don't want sticky footer. Use https://mcmap.net/q/67940/-flushing-footer-to-bottom-of-the-page-twitter-bootstrap (accepted answer) for non-sticky footer. – Ancalin

this worked perfectly for me , however link is not working so check this page - getbootstrap.com/docs/4.4/components/navbar – Ostracism

Bootstrap 5, <footer class="mt-auto text-center fixed-bottom"> <div class="container"> &copy; 2021 - Text Footer </div> </footer> – Giovanna

Answer 3

A working example for Twitter bootstrap NOT STICKY FOOTER

<script>
$(document).ready(function() {

    var docHeight = $(window).height();
    var footerHeight = $('#footer').height();
    var footerTop = $('#footer').position().top + footerHeight;

    if (footerTop < docHeight)
        $('#footer').css('margin-top', 10+ (docHeight - footerTop) + 'px');
});
</script>

Version that always updates in case user opens devtools or resizes window.

<script>
    $(document).ready(function() {
        setInterval(function() {
            var docHeight = $(window).height();
            var footerHeight = $('#footer').height();
            var footerTop = $('#footer').position().top + footerHeight;
            var marginTop = (docHeight - footerTop + 10);

            if (footerTop < docHeight)
                $('#footer').css('margin-top', marginTop + 'px'); // padding of 30 on footer
            else
                $('#footer').css('margin-top', '0px');
            // console.log("docheight: " + docHeight + "\n" + "footerheight: " + footerHeight + "\n" + "footertop: " + footerTop + "\n" + "new docheight: " + $(window).height() + "\n" + "margintop: " + marginTop);
        }, 250);
    });
</script>

You need at least an element with a #footer

When not want the scrollbar if content would fit to screen just change the value of 10 to 0
The scrollbar will show up if content not fits to screen.

Nichellenichol

Alternatively, to have the footer stay in place and flush to the bottom, change margin-top to padding-bottom in the JS. – Witchcraft

Yeah, I went with this one too. CSS can be so stupid sometimes. Not that it's impossible, but general purpose solutions can be hard to come by, and fixing annoying things like this in our layouts shouldn't take trips to stack exchange, multiple gist revisions, cross-browswer testing, and eventual surrender to a simple JS trick. Yeah, I feel a bit dirty, but at least it works. – Yolk

every single solution I've looked at is wrong. This is the ONLY one that actually does what it's supposed to do - stick the footer to the bottom of the page, without obscuring any content if the browser is resized. – Poisson

it didnt work quiet as well as expected for me, still, one of the better answers, i fixed my issue by replacing $('#footer').height(); with $('#footer').outerHeight(); – Seriatim

Great answer! I had a couple adaptations that I think improve it here: https://mcmap.net/q/67940/-flushing-footer-to-bottom-of-the-page-twitter-bootstrap – Tuyere

The best answer I've found. If you want it to work after window resize just put the main code from the answer inside $(window).resize(function() {//main code goes here}); and invoke $(window).resize(); to set it when page loads. – Colvin

Tried 4 of the solutions on this page and nothing was working for me except this. – Prolongation

It will not adjust on window resize, so put the code in a function, call it once, then call it on window resize events: $(window).on("resize", etc.... – Elanorelapid

i dont know why i need to change the 10 to 40. theres a gap – Muzz

In my opinion, the best solution in the history of humanity !!! – Poree

Don't forget to remove bootstrap "pt" or "mt" classes applied to your footer if doing this. This should be the accepted answer! – Accipiter

Answer 4

For Sticky Footer we use two DIV's in the HTML for basic sticky footer effect. Write like this:

HTML

<div class="container"></div>

<div class="footer"></div>

CSS

body,html {
    height:100%;
}
.container {
    min-height:100%;
}
.footer {
    height:40px;
    margin-top:-40px;
}

Paleobiology

He said he's using Twitter Bootstrap. What would be the easiest way of integrating this into Bootstrap without completely rewriting the HTML? – Dupuy

If OP want's to achieve Sticky Footer effect then he have to change his MarkUp – Paleobiology

Thank you! This has been the only method that has actually worked for me in an ASP.NET MVC5 site that uses Bootstrap. +1 – Titleholder

Answer 5

Here's how to implement this from the official page:

http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/examples/sticky-footer.html

I just tested it right now and it WORKS GREAT! :)

HTML

<body>

    <!-- Part 1: Wrap all page content here -->
    <div id="wrap">

      <!-- Begin page content -->
      <div class="container">
        <div class="page-header">
          <h1>Sticky footer</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.</p>
      </div>

      <div id="push"></div>
    </div>

    <div id="footer">
      <div class="container">
        <p class="muted credit">Example courtesy <a href="http://martinbean.co.uk">Martin Bean</a> and <a href="http://ryanfait.com/sticky-footer/">Ryan Fait</a>.</p>
      </div>
    </div>
</body>

The relevant CSS code is this:

/* 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 !important;
    height: 100%;
    /* Negative indent footer by it's height */
    margin: 0 auto -30px;
}

/* Set the fixed height of the footer here */
#push,
#footer {
    height: 30px;
}

#footer {
    background-color: #f5f5f5;
}

/* Lastly, apply responsive CSS fixes as necessary */
@media (max-width: 767px) {
    #footer {
        margin-left: -20px;
        margin-right: -20px;
        padding-left: 20px;
        padding-right: 20px;
    }
}

Primero

Thanks for posting this, it was definitely the best solution (not to mention the only one that worked) for my particular project, and of course it's nice that it's directly from the project itself. – Woolfell

I don't know what the deal was, but I couldn't get it to work without adding a scroll to the pages. I ended up changing the .wrapper CSS so the min-height was "calc(100% - 120px)" where the 120px is the height of my footer and removed the <div id="push"></div> from the html since it didn't seem to be doing anything aside from adding height to the page I didn't need. – Existential

Answer 6

Much simpler official example: http://getbootstrap.com/examples/sticky-footer-navbar/

html {
  position: relative;
  min-height: 100%;
}
body {
  margin-bottom: 60px;
}
.footer {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 60px;
  background-color: #f5f5f5;
}

Acerose

Answer 7

Use the flex utilities built into Bootstrap 4! Here's what I've come up with using mostly Bootstrap 4 utilities.

<div class="d-flex flex-column" style="min-height: 100vh;">
  <header></header>
  <div class="container flex-grow-1">
    <div>Some Content</div>
  </div>
  <footer></footer>
</div>

• .d-flex to make the main div a flex container
• .flex-column on the main div to arrange your flex items in a column
• min-height: 100vh to the main div, either with a style attribute or in your CSS, to fill the viewport vertically
• .flex-grow-1 on the container, element to have the main content container take up all the space that remains in the viewport height.

Quoits

Instead of min-height: 100vh the min-vh-100 class from Bootstrap can be used. – Unread

This solution worked great including the min-vh-100 suggestion from @Unread – Midgett

I just wanted to say THANK YOU! – Salter

Thank you so much for this answer! I've tried it here: link However, I needed to set the style as the min-vh-100 class didn't work for me. Any idea why? – Zeniazenith

Answer 8

In the latest version of bootstrap 4.3, this can be done using .fixed-bottom class.

<div class="fixed-bottom"></div>

Here's how I use it with the footer:

<footer class="footer fixed-bottom container">
        <hr>
        <p>&copy; 2017 Company, Inc.</p>
</footer>

You can find more information in the position documentation here.

Hackle

This still works with the official 4 version unleashed. – Hudgens

Note that the example at getbootstrap.com/docs/4.1/examples/sticky-footer has a line-height=60px style on the footer element. This is not only unnecessary, it also prevents the footer from working properly if it's the parent of one or more div elements, which is commonly the case. – Elanorelapid

It makes the footer sticky?! – Menedez

Answer 9

Keep the footer at the bottom by using Bootstrap 5

    <div class="min-vh-100 d-flex flex-column 
                justify-content-between">
     
         <div> <!-- Wrapper (Without footer) -->
       
            <header>
             I am a header.
            </header>
      
            <article>
            I am an article!
            </article>
       
        </div> <!-- End: Wrapper (Without footer) -->
     
     
         <footer>
         I am a footer.
         </footer>
     
    </div>

---

Live Demo in CodePen

---

Note

• Make sure that you are wrapping everything in a <div> or any other block-level element with the following Bootstrap classes: min-vh-100, d-flex,flex-column,justify-content-between .

• Make sure that you are wrapping everything but the footer element in a <div> or any other block-level element.

• Make sure that you using <footer> or any other block-level element to wrap the footer.

Code Explanation

• min-vh-100 ensures that the body element will stretch to at least the full height of the screen

• flex-column keeps the behavior of normal document flow in terms of retaining stacked block elements (which assumes direct children of the body are all indeed block elements).

• justify-content-between pushes the footer to the bottom of the screen.

---

Check out how to do the same (Keeping the footer at the bottom) with just CSS - Link

Timotheus

Answer 10

Well I found mix of navbar-inner and navbar-fixed-bottom

<div id="footer">
 <div class="navbar navbar-inner  navbar-fixed-bottom">
    <p class="muted credit"><center>ver 1.0.1</center></p>
 </div>
</div>

It seems good and works for me

See example in Fiddle

Brewer

simplest and most elegant solution. Be leery of home brewing your own css code as it will not be backwards compatible with bootstrap – Gaulish

I used this, and had a problem on an old android (froy maybe?) with pages that were shorter than the screen. Otherwise it worked well on FF, Chrome, IE11, iPhone, nexus 7. – Wince

Perfect and extremely simple! – Malina

Answer 11

HenryW's answer is good, though I needed a few tweaks to get it working how I wanted. In particular the following also handles:

• Avoiding the "jumpiness" on page load by first marking invisible and setting visible in javascript
• Dealing with browser resizes gracefully
• Additionally setting the footer back up the page if the browser gets smaller and the footer becomes bigger than the page
• Height function tweaks

Here's what worked for me with those tweaks:

HTML:

<div id="footer" class="invisible">My sweet footer</div>

CSS:

#footer {
    padding-bottom: 30px;
}

JavaScript:

function setFooterStyle() {
    var docHeight = $(window).height();
    var footerHeight = $('#footer').outerHeight();
    var footerTop = $('#footer').position().top + footerHeight;
    if (footerTop < docHeight) {
        $('#footer').css('margin-top', (docHeight - footerTop) + 'px');
    } else {
        $('#footer').css('margin-top', '');
    }
    $('#footer').removeClass('invisible');
}
$(document).ready(function() {
    setFooterStyle();
    window.onresize = setFooterStyle;
});

Tuyere

Answer 12

This worked for me perfectly.

Add this class navbar-fixed-bottom to your footer.

<div class="footer navbar-fixed-bottom">

I used it like this:

<div class="container-fluid footer navbar-fixed-bottom">
<!-- start footer -->
</div>

And it sets to bottom over the the full width.

Edit: This will set footer to always visible, it's something you need to take in consideration.

Yablon

Answer 13

You need to wrap your .container-fluid div in order for your sticky footer to work, you're also missing some properties on your .wrapper class. Try this:

Remove the padding-top:70px from your body tag and include it in your .container-fluid instead, like so:

.wrapper > .container-fluid {
    padding-top: 70px;
}

We have to do this because pushing the body down to accommodate the navbar ends up pushing the footer a bit further (70px further) past the viewport so we get a scrollbar. We get better results pushing the .container-fluid div instead.

Next we have to remove the .wrapper class outside your .container-fluid div and wrap your #main div with it, like so:

<div class="wrapper">
    <div id="main" class="container-fluid">
        <div class="row-fluid">...</div>
        <div class="push"></div>
    </div>
</div>  

Your footer of course has to be out of the .wrapper div so remove it from the `.wrapper div and place it outside, like so:

<div class="wrapper">
    ....
</div>
<footer class="container-fluid">
    ....
</footer><!--END .row-fluid-->

After thats all done, properly push your footer closer to your .wrapper class by using a negative margin, like so:

.wrapper {
    min-height: 100%;
    height: auto !important; /* ie7 fix */
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0 auto -43px;
}

And that should work, though you're probably going to have to modify a few other things to make it work when the screen is resized, like resetting the height on the .wrapper class, like so:

@media (max-width:480px) {
   .wrapper {
      height:auto;
   }
}

Tactic

Answer 14

This is the right way to do it with Twitter Bootstrap and the new navbar-fixed-bottom class: (you have no idea how long I spent looking for this)

CSS:

html {
  position: relative;
  min-height: 100%;
}
#content {
  padding-bottom: 50px;
}
#footer .navbar{
  position: absolute;
}

HTML:

<html>
  <body>
    <div id="content">...</div>
    <div id="footer">
      <div class="navbar navbar-fixed-bottom">
        <div class="navbar-inner">
          <div class="container">
            <ul class="nav">
              <li><a href="#">Menu 1</a></li>
              <li><a href="#">Menu 2</a></li>
            </ul>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Extraneous

Answer 15

Bootstrap v4+ solution

Here's a solution that doesn't require rethinking the HTML structure or any additional CSS trickery involving padding:

<html style="height:100%;">
  ...
  <body class="d-flex flex-column h-100">
    ...
    <main class="flex-grow-1">...</main>
    <footer>...</footer>
  </body>
  ...
</html>

Note that this solution allows for footers with flexible heights, which particularly comes in handy when designing pages for multiple screen sizes with content wrapping when shrunk.

Why this works

• style="height:100%;" makes the <html> tag take the whole space of the document.
• class d-flex sets display:flex to our <body> tag.
• class flex-column sets flex-direction:column to our <body> tag. Its children (<header>, <main>, <footer> and any other direct child) are now aligned vertically.
• class h-100 sets height:100% to our <body> tag, meaning it will cover the entire screen vertically.
• class flex-grow-1 sets flex-grow:1 to our <main>, effectively instructing it to fill any remaining vertical space, thus amounting to the 100% vertical height we set before on our <body> tag.

Working demo here: https://codepen.io/maxencemaire/pen/VwvyRQB

See https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/ for more information on flexbox.

Rosena

h-100 class doesn't work properly, it is better to use min-vh-100. – Unread

@Unread What exactly do you mean by "doesn't work properly"? Please elaborate. – Rosena

Because h-100 class always depends on the parent elements height and may not work on some cases properly. Since we want footer at the bottom of the viewport it would be a good practice to use viewport height. – Unread

Again, define 'some cases'. Your argument about the parent dependency applies just the same to min-width. Which is why the HTML tag has a height of 100% in the code. The example works and I don't see why it wouldn't given the cross-browser support for the CSS height property, which is ultimately what the Bootstrap snippet translates into. – Rosena

I didn't say your example doesn't work. Not everyone uses the style in the HTML tag. In my case, your solution didn't work since I don't prefer using the style in the HTML tag. And I don't want the body tag depends on another parent but viewport. You don't have to put style="height:100%;" and h-100 at the same time. Putting min-vh-100 to the body simply does the job and less code. – Unread

Answer 16

Use the navbar component and add .navbar-fixed-bottom class:

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-bottom"></div>

add body

  { padding-bottom: 70px; }

Woolgrower

Answer 17

Per the Bootstrap 4.3 example, in case you're losing your sanity like I did, this is how it actually works:

• All parents of the footer div need to have height: 100% (h-100 class)
• The direct parent of the footer needs to have display: flex (d-flex class)
• The footer needs to have margin-top: auto (mt-auto class)

The problem is that in modern front-end frameworks we often have additional wrappers around these elements.

For example in my case, with Angular, I composed the view from a separate app root, main app component, and footer component - all of which added their custom element to the DOM.

So, to make it work, I had to add classes to these wrapper elements: an additional h-100, moving the d-flex one level down, and moving the mt-auto one level up from the footer (so actually it's not on the footer class anymore, but on my <app-footer> custom element).

Huxham

I had to put class="h-100" to the <html> tag too. – Norma

+1 for "The direct parent of the footer needs to have d-flex class". I had another <div> in the hierarchy between the d-flex one and the footer.. – Meingolda

Answer 18

to handle width constraint layouts use the following so that you do not get rounded corners, and so that your nav bar will be flush to the sides of the application

<div class="navbar navbar-fixed-bottom">
    <div class="navbar-inner">
        <div class="width-constraint clearfix">
            <p class="pull-left muted credit">YourApp v1.0.0</p>

            <p class="pull-right muted credit">©2013 • CONFIDENTIAL ALL RIGHTS RESERVED</p>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

then you can use css to override the bootstrap classes to adjust height, font, and color

    .navbar-fixed-bottom {
      font-size: 12px;
      line-height: 18px;
    }
    .navbar-fixed-bottom .navbar-inner {
        min-height: 22px;
    }
    .navbar-fixed-bottom .p {
        margin: 2px 0 2px;
    }

Gaulish

Answer 19

You can use jQuery to handle this:

$(function() {
    /**
     * Read the size of the window and reposition the footer at the bottom.
     */
    var stickyFooter = function(){
        var pageHeight = $('html').height();
        var windowHeight = $(window).height();
        var footerHeight = $('footer').outerHeight();

        // A footer with 'fixed-bottom' has the CSS attribute "position: absolute",
        // and thus is outside of its container and counted in $('html').height().
        var totalHeight = $('footer').hasClass('fixed-bottom') ?
            pageHeight + footerHeight : pageHeight;

        // If the window is larger than the content, fix the footer at the bottom.
        if (windowHeight >= totalHeight) {
            return $('footer').addClass('fixed-bottom');
        } else {
            // If the page content is larger than the window, the footer must move.
            return $('footer').removeClass('fixed-bottom');
        }
    };

    // Call when this script is first loaded.
    window.onload = stickyFooter;

    // Call again when the window is resized.
    $(window).resize(function() {
        stickyFooter();
    });
});

Highlands

Answer 20

The simplest technique is probably to use Bootstrap navbar-static-bottom in conjunction with setting the main container div with height: 100vh (new CSS3 view port percentage). This will flush the footer to the bottom.

<main class="container" style="height: 100vh;">
  some content
</main>      
<footer class="navbar navbar-default navbar-static-bottom">
  <div class="container">
  <p class="navbar-text navbar-left">&copy; Footer4U</p>
  </div>
</footer>

Clutch

Answer 21

Tested with Bootstrap 3.6.6.

HTML

<div class="container footer navbar-fixed-bottom">
  <footer>
    <!-- your footer content here -->
  </footer>
</div>

CSS

.footer {
  bottom: 0;
  position: absolute;
}

Complainant

Answer 22

The only one that worked for me!:

html {
  position: relative;
  min-height: 100%;
  padding-bottom:90px;
}
body {
  margin-bottom: 90px;
}
footer {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 90px;
}

Rollick

Answer 23

Use this piece of code in bootstrap it's works

<div class="navbar fixed-bottom">
<div class="container">
 <p class="muted credit">Footer <a href="http://google.com">Link</a> and <a 
href="http://google.com/">link</a>.</p>
 </div>
 </div>

Maryammaryann

Answer 24

#wrap {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto !important;
height: 100%;
width: 100%;
/*Negative indent footer by its height*/
margin: 0 auto -60px;
position: fixed;
left: 0;
top: 0;
}

The footer height matches the size of the bottom indent of the wrap element.

.footer {
position: fixed;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
height: 60px;
}

Larkspur

Answer 25

Keep it simple.

footer {
  bottom: 0;
  position: absolute;
}

You may need to also offset the height of the footer by adding a margin-bottom equivalent to the footer height to the body.

Poetize

Answer 26

Here's a solution for the newest version of Bootstrap (4.3 at time of writing) using Flexbox.

HTML:

<div class="wrapper">
  <div class="content">
    <p>Content goes here</p>
  </div>
</div>
<footer class="footer"></footer>

CSS:

html, body {
  height: 100%;
}

body {
  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

.wrapper {
  flex-grow: 1;
}

And a codepen example: https://codepen.io/tillytoby/pen/QPdomR

Josettejosey

Answer 27

It looks like the height:100% 'chain' is being broken at div#main. Try adding height:100% to it and that may get you closer to your goal.

Freebooter

Answer 28

Here you'll find the approach in HAML ( http://haml.info ) with navbar on top and footer at the bottom of the page:

%body
  #main{:role => "main"}
    %header.navbar.navbar-fixed-top
      %nav.navbar-inner
        .container
          /HEADER
      .container
        /BODY
    %footer.navbar.navbar-fixed-bottom
      .container
        .row
          /FOOTER

Labdanum

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Answer 29

Here is an example using css3:

CSS:

html, body {
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0;
}
#wrap {
    padding: 10px;
    min-height: -webkit-calc(100% - 100px);     /* Chrome */
    min-height: -moz-calc(100% - 100px);     /* Firefox */
    min-height: calc(100% - 100px);     /* native */
}
.footer {
    position: relative;
    clear:both;
}

HTML:

<div id="wrap">
    <div class="container clear-top">
       body content....
    </div>
</div>
<footer class="footer">
    footer content....
</footer>

fiddle

Tonus

Answer 30

This is how bootstrap does it:

http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/examples/sticky-footer.html

Just use page source and you should be able to see. Don' forget the <div id="wrap"> an the top.

Bolling

Answer 31

another possible solution, just using media queries

@media screen and (min-width:1px) and (max-width:767px) {
    .footer {
    }
}
/* no style for smaller or else it goes weird.*/
@media screen and (min-width:768px) and (max-width:991px) {
    .footer{
        bottom: 0;
        width: 100%;
        position: absolute;
    }
}
@media screen and (min-width:992px) and (max-width:1199px) {
    .footer{
        bottom: 0;
        width: 100%;
        position: absolute;
    }
}
@media screen and (min-width:1120px){
    .footer{
        bottom: 0;
        width: 100%;
        position: absolute;
    }
}

Banket

Answer 32

Use the below class to push it to last line of the page and also make it to center of it. If you are using ruby on rails HAML page you can make use of the below code. %footer.card.text-center

Pls don't forget to use twitter bootstrapp

Multi

Answer 33

this works well

html

<footer></footer>

css

html {
  position: relative;
  min-height: 100%;
  padding-bottom:90px;
}
body {
  margin-bottom: 90px;
}
footer {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 90px;
}

Jacey

Answer 34

Bootstrap 5

Add these classes

<body class="d-flex flex-column min-vh-100">

<footer class="footer mt-auto">

Reference: https://radu.link/make-footer-stay-bottom-page-bootstrap/

Sorely

Answer 35

HTML

<div id="wrapper">

  <div id="content">
    <!-- navbar and containers here -->
  </div>

  <div id="footer">
   <!-- your footer here -->
  </div>

</div>

CSS

html, body {
  height: 100%;
}

#wrapper {
  min-height: 100%;
  position: relative;
}

#content {
  padding-bottom: 100px; /* Height of the footer element */
}

#footer {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100px; /* Adjust to the footer needs */
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  left: 0;
}

Centipoise

Answer 36

This one is the best!

html {
  position: relative;
  min-height: 100%;
  padding-bottom:90px;
}
body {
  margin-bottom: 90px;
}
footer {
  position: absolute;
  bottom: 0;
  width: 100%;
  height: 90px;
}

Carmelcarmela

Do you mind to bother explaining what is happening in the css code? – Readus