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I am doing a new site and I need a footer area to appear at the bottom of the content (much like this site), but I want it to appear at the bottom of the window when there is less content than requires a scrollbar.

For example: http://odata.stackexchange.com/

...has a footer, but on a large screen it appears in the middle of the page. I want it to attach to the bottom of the window but geet there is more text in which case it floats beneath the content.

I hope I have described my problem sufficiently :-)

Does anyone have any ideas or help with this?

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The best tutorial I know about it: http://matthewjamestaylor.com/blog/keeping-footers-at-the-bottom-of-the-page

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This is exactly what i needed, thanks Dave – Dan Nov 4 '10 at 22:28
yw Dan, I think you will enjoy almost all articles from Matthew James Taylor for webdesign. – Dave Nov 5 '10 at 2:22
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You'll be after CSS fixed position - position: fixed and bottom: 0, for example.

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Just keep in mind IE6 (and maybe 7, not sure) don't support fixed positioning so they won't see the footer at the bottom of the page. – John Conde♦ Nov 4 '10 at 20:23
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Unfortunately, that is not what I am after as the text scrolls underneath it when the content is longer than viewable. I need the text to always push the footer to the end – Dan Nov 4 '10 at 20:34

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