Always put the footer at the bottom

Written byPhuoc Nguyen

Tags

CSS

Created

06 Mar, 2021

Assume that our page is organized by three parts: the header, main content and footer. It's a common layout that the footer is always displayed at the bottom no matter how long the main content is.

<body>
    <div class="container">
        <header>...</header>
        <main>...</main>
        <footer>...</footer>
    </div>
</body>

Using CSS flexbox, the layout can be implemented as following:

.container {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    min-height: 100vh;
}

header,
footer {
    flex-shrink: 0;
}

main {
    flex-grow: 1;
}

Setting `flex-grow: 1` to the main content will make it take the available spaces. The footer then sticks at the bottom.

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