i think i know just the solution for you. note that to allow any element within the page a 100% height, both body and html need to be given some height property, which may be why yours wasn't working.
http://www.themaninblue.com/experiment/footerStickAlt/ taken from http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=FooterInfo i used his solution successfully on my own site, which uses an xhtml trans doctype. <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7b2 testing hub -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/