Keeping footer at the bottom of the page using Google MDL
Question
As far as I can tell this isn't a duplicate question because it's a bit different than the other questions on this topic.
I'm using Google's Material Design Lite and the footer will not stay at the bottom of the page properly.
I've seen the different fixes using this trick
<div class="content">
<div class="header"></div>
<div class="body"></div>
<div class="footer"></div>
</div>
and I've tried using this method
#footer {
bottom: 0;
width: 100%;
position: absolute; (or fixed)
}
The first option doesn't work because Material Design Lite actually uses the footer tag. And to be honest I don't really want to do that anyway because it seems kind of sloppy to me.
The CSS method for the footer almost works but there are a few problems. When using position: absolute; it doesn't always keep the footer on the bottom of the page and it will sometimes cover content. When I try fixed the footer is always kept at the bottom of the page but when there is enough content for the page to scroll it stays at the bottom of the screen and covers content. Both fixed and absolute will keep the footer at the bottom of the screen not the page, which means that when there is enough content to scroll the footer covers content at the edge of the screen.
The behavior for fixed can be reproduced 100% of the time, but for absolute I haven't figured out what causes it to work sometimes and not others.
This is the code I have for the footer
<footer class="mdl-mini-footer">
<div class="mdl-mini-footer--left-section">
<button class="mdl-mini-footer--social-btn social-btn social-btn__twitter">
<span class="visuallyhidden">Twitter</span>
</button>
<button class="mdl-mini-footer--social-btn social-btn social-btn__blogger">
<span class="visuallyhidden">Facebook</span>
</button>
<button class="mdl-mini-footer--social-btn social-btn social-btn__gplus">
<span class="visuallyhidden">Google Plus</span>
</button>
</div>
<div class="mdl-mini-footer--right-section">
<button class="mdl-mini-footer--social-btn social-btn__share">
<i class="material-icons" role="presentation">share</i>
<span class="visuallyhidden">share</span>
</button>
</div>
</footer>`
Has anyone else had this issue or have any ideas on a solution?
Edit to add more information:
The issue isn't with the height of the body or html they are both at 100%.
Full Layout Code
<body>
<div class="site mdl-layout mdl-js-layout">
<header class="mdl-layout__header mdl-layout__header--waterfall">
<div class="mdl-layout__header-row">
<!-- Header Content Here -->
</div>
</header>
<div class="mdl-layout__drawer">
<!-- Drawer Content -->
</div>
<main class="mdl-layout__content">
<!-- View Content Here -->
</main>
<footer class="mdl-mini-footer">
<!-- Footer Content -->
</footer>
<div class="mdl-layout__obfuscator"></div>
</div>
</body>
4 answers
solution1
33 ACCPTED 2015-10-27 15:05:46
I managed to do that by:
1. Without waterfall header
- Moving the footer element outside the main element
- Set the style of the
.mdl-layout__contentelement to"flex: 1 0 auto"
Example:
<body>
<div class="mdl-layout mdl-js-layout">
<header class="mdl-layout__header">
...
</header>
<main class="mdl-layout__content" style="flex: 1 0 auto;">
...
</main>
<footer class="mdl-mega-footer">
...
</footer>
</div>
</body>
2. With waterfall header
- Just by moving the footer element outside the main element
Example:
<body>
<div class="site mdl-layout mdl-js-layout">
<header class="mdl-layout__header mdl-layout__header--waterfall">
<div class="mdl-layout__header-row">
<!-- Header Content Here -->
</div>
</header>
<div class="mdl-layout__drawer">
<!-- Drawer Content -->
</div>
<main class="mdl-layout__content">
<!-- Main Content -->
</main>
<footer class="mdl-mini-footer">
<!-- Footer Content -->
</footer>
</div>
</body>
Tests:
- Short content: http://codepen.io/kabudahab/pen/vGdVQM
- Long content: http://codepen.io/kabudahab/pen/JXpmpv
solution2
4 2017-05-24 11:18:27
I was having the same problem, where a mdl-mini-footer was overlapping with my mdl-layout__content .
My solution was to keep the tags separate, ie
<main class="mdl-layout__content">
...
</main>
<footer class="mdl-mini-footer">
...
</footer>
and modify the classes as follows (taking inspiration from @KAD's first solution above)
.mdl-layout__content {
flex: 1 0 auto;
}
.mdl-mini-footer {
flex: 0 0 auto;
}
The modification of the footer class was necessary to stop the footer growing into spaces I didn't want it to (the first 0 in 0 0 auto ).
solution3
2 2016-05-15 21:54:35
Try This
<main class="mdl-layout__content">
<div class="page-content">
</div>
<div class="mdl-layout-spacer"></div>
<footer class="mdl-mini-footer">
<div class="mdl-mini-footer__left-section">
<div class="mdl-logo">Title</div>
<ul class="mdl-mini-footer__link-list">
<li><a href="#">Help</a></li>
<li><a href="#">Privacy & Terms</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</footer>
</main>
Just Add:
<div class="mdl-layout-spacer"></div>
After:
<div class="page-content"></div>
solution4
0 2016-07-18 17:57:11
I faced the same issue as you. After browsing through many tutorials and 2 questions like this, I had a peek at one of the templates provided by MDL and noticed that the footer is included within the main section. I find it higly counter-intuitive but the footer element should be specified just before the closing tag, NOT after it. See the screenshot of the markup which is now working fine. I'm working on the website of TEDx GEC. Visit the tedx GEC website to see the footer in action.(changes will be uploaded by 20-07-2016, anyone visiting before that will notice that the footer overlaps the content. Here's the screenshot: Notice the closing main tag is after the footer.
The technical post webpages of this site follow the CC BY-SA 4.0 protocol. If you need to reprint, please indicate the site URL or the original address.Any question please contact:yoyou2525@163.com.