HTML-CSS position problem with div

Question

I got a little problem and nothing I test seems to work.

My HTML:

<div id="parent">
    <div id="top_parent">Top_background
        <div id="top">Top_Picture</div></div>
    <div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>
        </div>

        <div id="bottom">Footer</div>

CSS:

#top_parent {
    background:#f00;
    height:100px;
}

#top{
    background:#0f0;
    float:right;
    position:relative;   
    height:100px;
    width:50%;
}
#content{
    top:-50px;
    background:#00f;
    <!--   position:relative;-->
    height:100px;
    width:80%;
    margin:auto;
}
#parent{
    background:#000;
    height:350px;
    width:100%; 
}

#bottom {
    height: 50px;
    background:#ff0;
    bottom:0px;
    <!--position:absolute; -->
    <!--position:relative; -->
}

Now my problem is, the footer won't get under the parent div, it stays in the content area. What am I doing wrong?

jsF link: my source

Thanks for the help.

Answer 1

Have you tried taking out that "bottom" attribute in the #bottom rule?

Answer 2

Not sure if you copy-pasted or if this is a typo when you posted your code, but this line:

<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>

Should have a closing </div> tag at the end instead of that opening <div> tag. If that's actually your HTML, then it would not be grouping the divs the way you want/expect.

Answer 3

You have not closed this div:

<div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>

Should be:

<div id="content">Here comes random stuff</div>

You could see this easily if you indented your divs:

<div id="parent">
  <div id="top_parent">Top_background
    <div id="top">Top_Picture</div>
  </div>
  <div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div> <!-- Can see the problem -->
</div>
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>

Answer 4

I think you have a wrong html:

<div id="parent">
    <div id="top_parent">Top_background
        <div id="top">Top_Picture</div></div>
    <div id="content">Here comes random stuff<div>
        </div>

        <div id="bottom">Footer</div>

You didn't close div parent, nor content

<div id="parent">
    <div id="top_parent">Top_background
        <div id="top">Top_Picture</div>
    </div>
    <div id="content">Here comes random stuff</div>
    <div id="bottom">Footer</div>
</div>

Interpreting that you want the "bottom" div inside the "parent", else:

<div id="parent">
    <div id="top_parent">Top_background
        <div id="top">Top_Picture</div>
    </div>
    <div id="content">Here comes random stuff</div>
</div>    
<div id="bottom">Footer</div>

Also, in your css you should enable the position:relative for #content div, else the top parameter won't work. Try if this solves the problem.

Answer 5

In order to position footer after the content divs you have to float content divs first and then add clear:both css command to the footer. So your tree sould look like this:::

<div class="wrapper"><div class="left"></div><div class="right"></div><br clear="all" /><div class="footer"></div>

For this example your css should be as following:::

div.wrapper{ width:80%;
position:relative;
margin:0 auto;
}

div.left{ float:left;
width:60%;
background:green;
height:200px; /height only for testing so you could see the result/ }

div.right{ float:right;
width:30%;
background:red;
height:200px; /height only for testing so you could see the result/ }

div.footer{ clear:both;
height:40px;/height only for testing so you could see the result/ background:yellow;
width:100%;
}