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CSS - need help positioning footer on page.

Hi,
Can anyone tell me how I can get the footer at the bottom of my page after the main content and 20 px from the bottom? Something similar to the way the footer displays on Experts Exchange.

Thanks in advance for your assistance.

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">
 
body {
	margin:0;
	padding:0;
	height:100%; /* 100 % height */
	SCROLLBAR-FACE-COLOR:#2A55A3;
	SCROLLBAR-HIGHLIGHT-COLOR:#FFFFFF;
	SCROLLBAR-SHADOW-COLOR:#2A55A3;
	SCROLLBAR-3DLIGHT-COLOR:#FFFFFF;
	SCROLLBAR-ARROW-COLOR:#FFFFFF;
	SCROLLBAR-TRACK-COLOR:#FFFFFF;
	overflow-y: scroll;
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12pt;
	font-weight: normal;
	color: #333333;
	z-index: 1;
	background-color: #00CC00;
}
 
#container {
	width: 900px;
	height: auto;
	position: absolute;
	top: 5px;
	left: 50%;
	margin-top: 5px;
	margin-bottom: 25px;
	margin-left: -450px;
	background-color: #333333;
	}
#header{
	position: absolute;
	top:0x;
	height: 136px;
	width: 900px;
	background-color: #336699;
}
#menu{
	position: absolute;
	top:136px;
	left:0px;
	height: 34px;
	width: 900px;
	z-index: 100;
	background-color: #0099FF;
}
#subheader{
	position: absolute;
	top: 170px;
	height: 130px;
	width: 900px;
	z-index: 10;
	background-color: #666699;
}
#main{
	position: absolute;
	top:300px;
	height: auto;
	background-color: #CCCC66;
	width: 870px;
	padding:15px;
}
#footer{
	height: 26px;
	width: 900px;
	background-color: red;
}
 
</style>
 
</head>
<body>
 
<div id="container">
<div id="header">header goes here</div>
<div id="menu">Menu here</div>
        <div id="subheader">Sub header here</div>
        <div id="main">Main content here - height will vary depending on content but footer should be below and I need footer 20px from bottom. 
       	</div><!-- end the main div --> 
 <div id="footer">footer here</div>
</div>      
</body>
</html>

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Mark Steggles

Hello,

This is the best way I have found to have a footer at the bottom of the page:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>footer at the bottom</title>
<style type="text/css">
* {
padding:0px; margin:0px;
}
html, body {
height:100%
}
#container {
min-height:100%;height:auto !important;height:100%
}
#content {
padding-bottom:20px
}
#footer {
background:#345;
margin-top:-20px;height:20px
}
</style>
</head>
 <body>
<div id="container">
<div id="content">
content
</div>
</div>
<div id="footer">footer</div>
</body>
</html>

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sabecs

ASKER

Thanks Steggs for your help,
I don't need the footer fixed in position a the bottom of my screen, I want it to be below my content, so depending on how much content I have on a page you might have to scroll down to see it.
I hope this makes sense.

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sabecs

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Thanks Steggs, its perfect.