No good, though I wish that was all it would take. That's what lines up the bottom of the footer with the bottom of the content; take that out and the top of the footer lines up with the bottom of the content. If there was some other way to get the cussed thing to do that, the positioning would have been out of there a long time ago :(
~Rebecca Martin Möller wrote: > Heya Rebecca, > > your DIV footer is: > position:absolute; > > very bad. remove that attribute. > > Then fix your DIV masthead > > padding-bottom:240px; > > to something more suitable like like 140px; > > The Problem should never occure again. > > Cheers, > Martin > > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Rebecca Mazur <maz...@kenyon.edu> wrote: >> I thought I'd buried this one a year ago. Guess not. If someone could just >> recognize and name the bug for me, that would be a help, as then I could go >> searching for solutions. >> >> Here's the trouble. We have a footer that's supposed to stay at the bottom >> of >> the page. *Sometimes* the stupid bugger rides up the screen to overlap with >> the >> page subnavigation. On reload, the page is magically fixed. The problem >> can be >> reproduced by clearing all history/cache-type files from IE and restarting >> the >> browser--but only sometimes. Sometimes it's still OK when you come back to >> it. >> >> The real trick is that I thought I had this thing solved when we launched >> last >> May and now it's gone and showed up again. No changes have been made to the >> code, so I think it's been happening all along but that it's intermittent >> enough >> that nobody reported it until today. The vendor had actually originally >> written >> the page with a javascript "fix" for this problem that fixed roughly half of >> the >> occurrences... and mucked up roughly half of the pages that didn't have the >> problem to start with. Needless to say, that was pitched out as soon as I >> figured out what it was doing. >> >> Here is one page that has definitely done it to me more than once: >> http://www.kenyon.edu/x12305.xml >> >> And here's a list of departments, many of which are candidates for the same >> problem, for if that one doesn't cooperate: >> http://www.kenyon.edu/departments.xml >> >> Please be kind. The code isn't mine, though I've done what I could to fix >> it up. >> >> Thanks, >> ~Rebecca ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
