As a result the footer is halfway on the page.

http://www.twitpic.com/1dw3zr

Submitted by Sverre Rabbelier on 7 April 2010 at 19:30

No, that is not the issue. Instead of absolutely positioning the footer at the bottom of the ‘physical’ page (as the previous version did), the current footer just follows the content of the page, which has a minimal height. The approach I use in researchr does not seem portable; see difference between rendering of researchr page on firefox and chrome/safari. I’d be happy to learn about a portable technique.

Ah, mhh, I see that Melange has the same problem, but never really runs into it due to it’s long sidebar, so I’m not sure how to fix it either.

Make all the items containing bottomContainer display: block; and height: 100%;
Have one item above bottomContainer and give it too height: 100%;

It should look like:

// Fit in topcontainer, content, clear

 

// Nicely at the bottom

Edit: I’ve added the footer_spacer, to push the footer down when the page has a lot of content

I’ve made changes to my previous comment over the last few days.
This comment is here as a promise I won’t make any further changes to that comment, and to inform you that you might have missed some updates :).