Re: is it possible to float a div to the bottom of its parent div?

On Apr 5, 11:42 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

You might say more what you are doing in context. All this is not a
promising thing to be doing!

I want footnotes at the bottom of the page. The main content has 1, 2
in superscript. Then at the bottom of the page should be a footnote
div. In there is a table with 2 columns; first column is the number
like 1 or 2, second column is the detail of the footnote. If the main
content is not full of stuff, the the footnote is very high up in the
page which looks kind of strange.

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On Apr 5, 11:42 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

You might say more what you are doing in context. All this is not a
promising thing to be doing!

I want footnotes at the bottom of the page. The main content has 1, 2
in superscript. Then at the bottom of the page should be a footnote
div. In there is a table with 2 columns; first column is the number
like 1 or 2, second column is the detail of the footnote. If the main
content is not full of stuff, the the footnote is very high up in the
page which looks kind of strange.

Ah! That is what you want, as many authors do with their footers. There
is a lot of stuff on this. Google for "sticky footers".

Here is something that works on good browsers I knocked up for you:

http://netweaver.com.au/alt/stickyNotes.html

But there are issues!

Let me say this: a web page is not a printed page and you might be able
to get to like me where it does not *at all* seem odd that the footer or
the notes do not keep to the bottom.

Not a single soul on this earth will be inconvenienced by notes or
footers that do not go to the bottom of the viewport. But authors who
make sure they do will certainly go to trouble and there are pitfalls.
It is not an obviously good thing to want to my way of seeing things.
There is no functional benefit and so it seems to me to be a pretty
superficial thing.

I will go further, when it comes to truly informative and interesting
footnotes on a web page that relate to text: it is better for them to be
higher for functional reasons. If you have little on the page and the
footnotes are much lower, the eyes have to travel further. This counts
more for me than mere "print-model" aesthetics that have no
functionality on a web page. At least on a printed page, footers lower
mean you can add to the main text with a pen.

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dorayme

On Apr 6, 11:18 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Ah! That is what you want, as many authors do with their footers. There
is a lot of stuff on this. Google for "sticky footers".

Thanks. The patch you had was pretty helpful too. I guess the magic
is in position:fixed and bottom:0. Anyway I've decided to forget
about floating to the bottom of the page and rely on the browser's
scrollbar.

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On Apr 6, 11:18 am, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Ah! That is what you want, as many authors do with their footers. There
is a lot of stuff on this. Google for "sticky footers".

Thanks. The patch you had was pretty helpful too. I guess the magic
is in position:fixed and bottom:0. Anyway I've decided to forget
about floating to the bottom of the page and rely on the browser's
scrollbar.

Well, forgetting about sticky footers is big for relieving headaches!

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dorayme

On Apr 6, 7:09 pm, dorayme <doraymeRidT... (AT) optusnet (DOT) com.au> wrote:

Well, forgetting about sticky footers is big for relieving headaches!

What kind of headaches?