Styling the #footer Container

Styling the #footer Container

The #footer container is displayed after the #nav and #content containers. Because these two containers are floated, there is a possibility that the #footer container might try to sit beside them. This can be fixed using the clear property on the #footer container. The four options are clear: left, clear: right, clear: both, and clear: none.

Here you will use clear: both, which will force the #footer container to sit below the two floated containers.

To set a background color, use background: #387A9B. The color can then be set to #fff.

Next, padding can be used to create some space around the content. You can apply 5px to the top and bottom, and 10px to the left and right edges using padding: 5px 10px as shown in Listing 19.10.

To align the footer content to the right, use text-align: right.

Finally, the font size of the footer can be reduced because it is less important information. You can use font-size: 80% as shown in Listing 19.10. The results can be seen in Figure 19.9.

Listing 19.10. CSS Code for Styling the #footer Container

body
{
    text-align: center;
    background: #B0BFC2;
    color: #444;
}

#container
{
    text-align: left;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 700px;
    background: #FFF url(header-base.gif) repeat-y;
}

h1
{
    background: #D36832;
    color: #FFF;
    padding: 20px;
    margin: 0;
    border-bottom: 5px solid #387A9B;
}

#nav
{
    float: left;
    width: 130px;
    display: inline;
    margin-left: 20px;
    padding: 15px 0;
}

#nav ul
{
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    list-style-type: none;
    text-align: right;
}

#nav li
{
    background: url(header-bullet.gif) no-repeat 100% .4em;
    padding: 0 10px 5px 0;
}

#content
{
    float: left;
    width: 475px;
    margin-left: 45px;
    padding: 15px 0;
}

#footer
{
    clear: both;
    background: #387A9B;
    color: #fff;
    padding: 5px 10px;
    text-align: right;
    font-size: 80%;
}

Figure 19.9. Screenshot of styled #footer container.