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Oct 26.2006

I have a page that has:
Header
Navigation
Main content area
footer

i want it so that the main content area stretches to fill out the unused height in the page, so that the footer will always “hug” the bottom.

I tried setting the main area height to 100% but that just pushes the footer off the screen.
I also tried wrapping the page in a container div that had 100% height and width, but i’ve come to realise that divs do not inherit the parent div as tables do in html.

any help is appreciated

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@MoridinOct 26.2006 — I can't really give any specific tips without a link to the website and/or the code to see how it looks like. This might be useful for you though:

[url=http://blogs.msdn.com/danielmcpherson/archive/2004/06/17/158197.aspx]Point2Share: How to create a footer[/url]

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    @abzOct 26.2006 — I think you are after teh CSS property:

    vertical-align: bottom;
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    @KravvitzOct 26.2006 — No, vertical-align won't work for this. It only applies to inline-level elements and elements inside a table-cell.

    These are what the OP wants.

    [url=http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showpost.php?p=1239966&postcount=3]How do you put a footer at the bottom of the window?[/url]

    [url=http://garyblue.port5.com/webdev/footertest.html]Lock the footer to the bottom of viewport[/url]
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    @IIIKrazyKiDDIIIOct 26.2006 — From my limited understanding of CSS, I believe it is not possible with CSS alone. You need to do javascript calculations.
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