How do I force a DIV block to extend to the bottom of a page even if it has no content?

Your problem is not that the div is not at 100% height, but that the container around it is not.This will help in the browser I suspect you are using:

html,body { height:100%; }

You may need to adjust padding and margins as well, but this will get you 90% of the way there.If you need to make it work with all browsers you will have to mess around with it a bit.

This site has some excellent examples:

http://www.brunildo.org/test/html_body_0.html
http://www.brunildo.org/test/html_body_11b.html
http://www.brunildo.org/test/index.html

I also recommend going to http://quirksmode.org/


I'll try to answer the question directly in the title, rather than being hell-bent on sticking a footer to the bottom of the page.

Make div extend to the bottom of the page if there's not enough content to fill the available vertical browser viewport:

Demo at (drag the frame handle to see effect) : http://jsfiddle.net/NN7ky
(upside: clean, simple. downside: requires flexbox - http://caniuse.com/flexbox)

HTML:

<body>

  <div class=div1>
    div1<br>
    div1<br>
    div1<br>
  </div>

  <div class=div2>
    div2<br>
    div2<br>
    div2<br>
  </div>

</body>

CSS:

* { padding: 0; margin: 0; }

html, body {
  height: 100%;

  display: flex;
  flex-direction: column;
}

body > * {
  flex-shrink: 0;
}

.div1 { background-color: yellow; }

.div2 {
  background-color: orange;
  flex-grow: 1;
}

ta-da - or i'm just too sleepy


Try playing around with the following css rule:

#content {
    min-height: 600px;
    height: auto !important;
    height: 600px;
}

Change the height to suit your page. height is mentioned twice for cross browser compatibility.

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