One of the problems with CSS (both CSS1 and CSS2) 
is that while they *say* "Use tables only to display 
tabular information, not for layout" they don't provide the 
tools needed to completely replace tables as general-
purpose layout tools.

Still, you could put your main content in a DIV, your 
footer in another DIV, and position it relative to the DIV 
holding the main content. I suppose that would place 
the footer below the main content, including below the 
visible part of the page.

David
dvjones(at)ksbe.edu

On 1 May 2003, at 18:23, Mike Taylor wrote:

> It looks that way.  At least if you are trying to create a
> tableless page in CSS, using three or four columns, and
> you want the footer to stretch across those columns but
> appear at the bottom of the page (the "actual" bottom,
> after the user scrolls through the content, not the faux
> bottom of the browser window).
> 
> At first I thought I was going nuts, that surely with the
> large movement toward a tableless environment, you could
> do something as simple as a footer in CSS.  Wrongo.
> 
> Found this article, which vividly illustrates what I ran
> up against.  And nearly everyone on the Internet looking
> for the same answer I am, came back to this one article. 
> (sigh)
> 
> http://whatdoiknow.org/archives/000793.php
> 


 

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