How do I get my footer image permanently bottom-aligned in webpage?

March 14, 2010 8:28 PM

I am created a website and I'd like to put a footer image at the bottom of the page. How can I put the footer in and have it always a certain amount of pixels from the bottom of the window across all browsers?

-I am using Dreamweaver CS3
-I cannot use CSS (it's a project for school and CSS isn't allowed)

posted by Proginoskes to computers & internet (6 answers total)

A table with 0 border, but cellpadding and/or cellspacing as required.
posted by hungrysquirrels at 9:05 PM on March 14, 2010

I'll add to that, you can create an appropriately sized image spacer to force things into the alignment you want.
posted by hungrysquirrels at 9:24 PM on March 14, 2010

You can definitely do that with a table. What you do is make a cell for the bottom section and hard-wire its size. Then you make a different cell for the whole rest of the page, and make its size unspecified.

And you size the table as a whole as "100%". That puts your bottom cell at the bottom of the page, and it will move if the browser is resized.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 9:50 PM on March 14, 2010

Are you wanting the footer to simply appear at the bottom of each page (allowing for variable scroll height given variable content) or do you want a fixed footer which sort of floats at the bottom of the page while the rest of the page scrolls?

What kind of class doesn't allow CSS? It's 2010. Is it an archeological web technologies class? Are you sending an html file to 1997?

I'm sorry. I'm snarking. I'll stop.

Table or image spacing techniques as listed above will solve your problem. If you need the floaty footer as I described, you'll need either CSS and a modern browser or a combination of CSS and JavaScript.
posted by device55 at 9:51 PM on March 14, 2010 [5 favorites]

A different way to do it is with frames. But they're very visible to the user and some people find them obnoxious.
posted by Chocolate Pickle at 10:32 PM on March 14, 2010

How to build a footer that doesn't stink
posted by geekyguy at 10:56 PM on March 14, 2010