css for footer text

Question

I'm having a hard time with a simple css snippet for footer text. The footer text must always be at the end of the page and the end of the screen whatever comes later.

Answer 1

* {
    margin: 0;
}
html, body {
    height: 100%;
}
.wrapper {
    min-height: 100%;
    height: auto !important;
    height: 100%;
    margin: 0 auto -142px; /* the bottom margin is the negative value of the footer's height */
}
.footer, .push {
    height: 142px; /* .push must be the same height as .footer */
}

/*

Sticky Footer by Ryan Fait
http://ryanfait.com/

*/

Answer 2

Use the bottom property:

#footer
{
    position:absolute;
    bottom:2px;
}

Answer 3

For a working example which you could pick apart I had previously done this exact same thing for a client of ours:

Pushed Down Page - Fixed Position Page