floating footer appears in Firefox but NOT IE9? Why on earth?

samhor · 01-15-2013, 09:17 PM

Hello Everyone

I have made a floating footer but for some unknown reason it will only appear if i open the web page on firefox.

I have tried it in IE9 but it does not appear.

Any ideas? Could someone try the code on their IE?

Excavator · 01-15-2013, 10:50 PM

Hello samhor,
Your #footer is positioned, not floating at all.

This seems to be a double post as I don't see much different from your original post where I gave what I thought was a pretty accurate explanation of where your footer is and how to get it down to the bottom of the page where you want it.

samhor · 01-15-2013, 11:47 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Excavator

Hello samhor,
Your #footer is positioned, not floating at all.

This seems to be a double post as I don't see much different from your original post where I gave what I thought was a pretty accurate explanation of where your footer is and how to get it down to the bottom of the page where you want it.

Yes i know but the floating footer does not work with the below at the start in iE9 but will in FF-

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

I had to remove most of it and leave it with <!DOCTYPE html>

It now works fine with the below in FF and IE9 now

Code:

div#footer {
	position: fixed;
	bottom: 10px;
	left: 10px;
	width: 815PX;
	height: 50px;
	font-family: Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-weight: normal;
	text-decoration: underline;
	background-color: #666;

Thanks for the help

Excavator · 01-15-2013, 11:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by samhor

Yes i know but the floating footer does not work with the below at the start in iE9 but will in FF-

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

Transitional again?

The DocType you've chosen, <!DOCTYPE html>, is an HTML5 DocType. Did you know that? Do you know why you're using it?

samhor · 01-17-2013, 12:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Excavator

Transitional again?

The DocType you've chosen, <!DOCTYPE html>, is an HTML5 DocType. Did you know that? Do you know why you're using it?

Nope it was just a recommendation on a forum. I've take it out now and left it at <html>

UPDATE--

The code works in IE 9 and FF but i have since tried it on IE 8 and the footer appears just behind the navigation bar now so e.g. close to the top of the page instead of the bottom... Is some code amendments needed for IE8 ?

webdevs · 01-18-2013, 06:45 AM

what is the HTML and CSS for that floating footer? If, possible please send me js file. Even you can find lot of floating footer in google which support major browser.