Perhaps a better explaination is in order. The app is internal for an IE5.5+ only audience. It's quite visually complex, and I'm trying to keep the number of page loads down as the presentation changes as much as possible. I have a base page set up like this:
+---------------+ | | +---+-------+---+ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | +---+-------+---+ | | +---------------+ The top 4 content areas all have variable content, while the footer is static. As well, the top 4 areas might not all be there, and they might be added or removed client-side. This is all working just dandy using absolute positioning and hiding stuff. However, I need to slap that footer bar at the bottom, and I need it to start below the other content areas (no overlap). I can't figure out a good way to do that, because I don't know how tall the middle 3 areas are (if they are present) until the client renders them. I might well be pursueing a pipe-dream, in which case I'll find another way, but it seems like this should be possible. thanks, barneyb --- Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer AudienceCentral (formerly PIER System, Inc.) [EMAIL PROTECTED] voice : 360.671.8708 x12 fax : 360.647.5351 www.audiencecentral.com > -----Original Message----- > From: Jason Miller [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:53 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Re: OT: css, dhtml question > > > Personally - I handle footers in .cfm includes.. I find it much easier - > and simply it includes it at the end of the code. So on shorter and > longer pages it simply displays at end. > > If you needed to actually "attach" a footer to the bottom of the browser > - something like > <div id="FooterAbs" style="position: absolute; bottom: 0px; > z-index: 300;"> > would work. > > I added z-index more for demonstration - The issue is - that you can > overalp content. Unlike using an include - that will put it at the > bottom no matter what - you will need to scroll to get content beyone > viewable screen -but footer will hang on to the bottom edge. > > Use it carefully because there are almost always some trouble spots. > IF your footer can overlap content - not a biggie. In one case I used it > - I assigned z-index of -100 ( which also has it's own bugs on browser > versions) so on shorter page content the footer didn't interrupt. > > hope that helps > jay miller > > Barney Boisvert wrote: > > Totally unrelated, but on the same topic. How might I go about > putting a > > footer bar at the bottom of my page using CSS, rather than a > table. I've > > had no problems with topbars, sidebars (either side) and the > main content > > pane(s), but I can't get stuff to sit at the bottom of the page > correctly. > > I tried 'bottom' (complementing top) but it seems to be tied to the > > browser's size, not the page's size, which doesn't work if the > page scrolls, > > at least on IE6. > > > > Use JS to set it dynamically? > > > > footerbar.style.top = Math.max(menubar.style.height, > > contentpane.style.height) + topbar.style.height; > > > > that seems like a horrible way to do it to me. > > > > barneyb > > > > --- > > Barney Boisvert, Senior Development Engineer > > AudienceCentral (formerly PIER System, Inc.) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > voice : 360.671.8708 x12 > > fax : 360.647.5351 > > > > www.audiencecentral.com > > > > > >>-----Original Message----- > >>From: charlie griefer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>Sent: Monday, March 24, 2003 10:18 AM > >>To: CF-Talk > >>Subject: Re: OT: css, dhtml question > >> > >> > >>may want to give the <div class="sidebar"> a width... > >> > >>it might defined in the 'sidebar' class in the .css...i was too > >>lazy to look > >>:) > >> > >>charlie > >> > >>Mark A. Kruger - CFG writes: > >> > >> > >>>Can someone give me the quick and dirty answer on why this page doesn't > >>>render correctly in IE? > >>> > >>>http://www.thelifegate.net/Pages/ClassReg.asp > >>> > >>>thanks! > >>> > >>>-mk > >>> > >>> > >>> > >> > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
