I have a sticky footer that uses the flexbox technique which works perfectly fine and expands when the content fills the page.
I'm now trying to add a conditional, based on a particular user, fixed position bottom navbar. i've applied margin-bottom to the footer which is fine when the content fits within the page however when the content grows i cannot scroll the page to the bottom and view the full footer. It seems the bottom-margin is not applied to the footer when the content grows to fill the page. Any help would be appreciated, example code and Codepen below.
<html>
<head>
<style>
html, body {
/* IE 10-11 didn't like using min-height */
height: 100%;
}
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
.content {
flex: 1 0 auto; /* Prevent Chrome, Opera, and Safari from letting these items shrink to smaller than their content's default minimum size. */
padding: 20px;
}
.footer {
flex-shrink: 0; /* Prevent Chrome, Opera, and Safari from letting these items shrink to smaller than their content's default minimum size. */
padding: 20px;
}
* {
box-sizing: border-box;
}
body {
margin: 0;
font: 16px Sans-Serif;
}
h1 {
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
}
p {
margin: 0 0 20px 0;
}
footer {
background: #42A5F5;
color: white;
margin-bottom: 25px;
height: 50px;
}
.conditionalNav {
position: fixed;
bottom:0;
left:0;
width:100%;
background:green;
color: white;
padding:5px;
hight:25px;
}
</style>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>Sticky Footer with Flexbox</title>
<script src="https://code.jquery.com/jquery-2.2.4.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>
<div class="content">
<h1>Sticky Footer with Flexbox</h1>
<p><button id="add">Add Content</button></p>
<p>some content</p></div>
<footer class="footer">
Footer
</footer>
<div class="conditionalNav">
Conditional bottom navbar
</div>
</body>
</html>
Setting height: 100%
on html and body (as opposed to min-height) prevents the document height from exceeding the viewport height, so your additional content is overflowing scrollable area.
You could remove body from the 100%, leaving it on html, or add overflow: auto
to the html/body rule so that the body element can scroll (as opposed to scrolling the window).
Edit: removing 100% height from body allows the footer to move off the bottom of the window. Updated accordingly.
html, body {
/* IE 10-11 didn't like using min-height */
height: 100%;
overflow: auto;
}
You also have a typo in your .conditionalNav
rule:
hight:25px;