Say I have the following CSS and HTML code:
#header {_x000D_
height: 150px;_x000D_
}<div id="header">_x000D_
<h1>Header title</h1>_x000D_
Header content (one or multiple lines)_x000D_
</div>The header section is fixed height, but the header content may change.
I would like the content of the header to be vertically aligned to the bottom of the header section, so the last line of text "sticks" to the bottom of the header section.
So if there is only one line of text, it would be like:
----------------------------- | Header title | | | | header content (resulting in one line) -----------------------------
And if there were three lines:
----------------------------- | Header title | | header content (which is so | much stuff that it perfectly | spans over three lines) -----------------------------
How can this be done in CSS?
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The answer is
If you're not worried about legacy browsers use a flexbox.
The parent element needs its display type set to flex
div.parent {
display: flex;
height: 100%;
}
Then you set the child element's align-self to flex-end.
span.child {
display: inline-block;
align-self: flex-end;
}
Here's the resource I used to learn: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/a-guide-to-flexbox/
A perfect cross-browser example is probably this one here:
http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=/213/213.css&page=0
The idea is both to display the div at the bottom and also making it stick there. Often the simple approach will make the sticky div scroll up with the main content.
Following is a fully working minimal example. Note that there's no div embedding trickery required. The many BRs are just to force a scrollbar to appear:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<style>
* {
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}
#floater {
background: yellow;
height: 200px;
width: 100%;
position: fixed;
bottom: 0px;
z-index: 5;
border-top: 2px solid gold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/><br/>
<div id="floater"></div>
</body>
</html>
If you are wondering your code might not be working on IE, remember to add the DOCTYPE tag at the top. It's crucial for this to work on IE. Also, this should be the first tag and nothing should appear above it.
Here's the flexy way to do it. Of course, it's not supported by IE8, as the user needed 7 years ago. Depending on what you need to support, some of these can be done away with.
Still, it would be nice if there was a way to do this without an outer container, just have the text align itself within it's own self.
#header {
-webkit-box-align: end;
-webkit-align-items: flex-end;
-ms-flex-align: end;
align-items: flex-end;
display: -webkit-box;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
height: 150px;
}
display: flex;
align-items: flex-end;
You can use following approach:
.header-parent {
height: 150px;
display: grid;
}
.header-content {
align-self: end;
}<div class="header-parent">
<h1>Header title</h1>
<div class="header-content">
Header content
</div>
</div>The modern way to do it would be using flexbox. See the example below. You don't even need to wrap Some text... into any HTML tag, since text directly contained in a flex container is wrapped in an anonymous flex item.
header {_x000D_
border: 1px solid blue;_x000D_
height: 150px;_x000D_
display: flex; /* defines flexbox */_x000D_
flex-direction: column; /* top to bottom */_x000D_
justify-content: space-between; /* first item at start, last at end */_x000D_
}_x000D_
h1 {_x000D_
margin: 0;_x000D_
}<header>_x000D_
<h1>Header title</h1>_x000D_
Some text aligns to the bottom_x000D_
</header>If there is only some text and you want to align vertically to the bottom of the container.
section {_x000D_
border: 1px solid blue;_x000D_
height: 150px;_x000D_
display: flex; /* defines flexbox */_x000D_
align-items: flex-end; /* bottom of the box */_x000D_
}<section>Some text aligns to the bottom</section>#header {
height: 150px;
display:flex;
flex-direction:column;
}
.top{
flex: 1;
}
<div id="header">
<h1 class="top">Header title</h1>
Header content (one or multiple lines)
</div>
#header {_x000D_
height: 250px;_x000D_
display:flex;_x000D_
flex-direction:column;_x000D_
background-color:yellow;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
.top{_x000D_
flex: 1;_x000D_
}<div id="header">_x000D_
<h1 class="top">Header title</h1>_x000D_
Header content (one or multiple lines)_x000D_
</div>Here is another solution using flexbox but without using flex-end for bottom alignment. The idea is to set margin-bottom on h1 to auto to push the remaining content to the bottom:
#header {_x000D_
height: 350px;_x000D_
display:flex;_x000D_
flex-direction:column;_x000D_
border:1px solid;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#header h1 {_x000D_
margin-bottom:auto;_x000D_
}<div id="header">_x000D_
<h1>Header title</h1>_x000D_
Header content (one or multiple lines) Header content (one or multiple lines)Header content (one or multiple lines) Header content (one or multiple lines)_x000D_
</div>We can also do the same with margin-top:auto on the text but in this case we need to wrap it inside a div or span:
#header {_x000D_
height: 350px;_x000D_
display:flex;_x000D_
flex-direction:column;_x000D_
border:1px solid;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#header span {_x000D_
margin-top:auto;_x000D_
}<div id="header">_x000D_
<h1>Header title</h1>_x000D_
<span>Header content (one or multiple lines)</span>_x000D_
</div>I have devised a way which is a lot simpler than what's been mentioned.
Set the height of the header div. Then inside that, style your H1 tag as follows:
float: left;
padding: 90px 10px 11px
I'm working on a site for a client, and the design requires the text to be at the bottom of a certain div. I've achieved the result using these two lines, and it works fine. Also, if the text does expand, the padding will still remain the same.
Seems to be working:
#content {
/* or just insert a number with "px" if you're fighting CSS without lesscss.org :) */
vertical-align: -@header_height + @content_height;
/* only need it if your content is <div>,
* if it is inline (e.g., <a>) will work without it */
display: inline-block;
}
Using less makes solving CSS puzzles much more like coding than like... I just love CSS. It's a real pleasure when you can change the whole layout (without breaking it :) just by changing one parameter.
I found this solution bassed on a default bootstrap start template
/* HTML */
<div class="content_wrapper">
<div class="content_floating">
<h2>HIS This is the header<br>
In Two Rows</h2>
<p>This is a description at the bottom too</p>
</div>
</div>
/* css */
.content_wrapper{
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 100%; /* For at least Firefox */
min-height: 100%;
}
.content_floating{
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
padding-bottom:80px;
}
The site I just did for a client requested that the footer text was a high box, with the text at the bottom I achieved this with simple padding, should work for all browsers.
<div id="footer">
some text here
</div>
#footer {
padding: 0 30px;
padding-top: 60px;
padding-bottom: 8px;
}
a very simple, one-line solution, is to add line-heigth to the div, having in mind that all the div's text will go bottom.
CSS:
#layer{width:198px;
height:48px;
line-height:72px;
border:1px #000 solid}
#layer a{text-decoration:none;}
HTML:
<div id="layer">
<a href="#">text at div's bottom.</a>
</div>
keep in mind that this is a practical and fast solution when you just want text inside div to go down, if you need to combine images and stuff, you will have to code a bit more complex and responsive CSS
You don't need absolute+relative for this. It is very much possible using relative position for both container and data. This is how you do it.
Assume height of your data is going to be x. Your container is relative and footer is also relative. All you have to do is add to your data
bottom: -webkit-calc(-100% + x);
Your data will always be at the bottom of your container. Works even if you have container with dynamic height.
HTML will be like this
<div class="container">
<div class="data"></div>
</div>
CSS will be like this
.container{
height:400px;
width:600px;
border:1px solid red;
margin-top:50px;
margin-left:50px;
display:block;
}
.data{
width:100%;
height:40px;
position:relative;
float:left;
border:1px solid blue;
bottom: -webkit-calc(-100% + 40px);
bottom:calc(-100% + 40px);
}
Hope this helps.
You can simply achieved flex
header {_x000D_
border: 1px solid blue;_x000D_
height: 150px;_x000D_
display: flex; /* defines flexbox */_x000D_
flex-direction: column; /* top to bottom */_x000D_
justify-content: space-between; /* first item at start, last at end */_x000D_
}_x000D_
h1 {_x000D_
margin: 0;_x000D_
}<header>_x000D_
<h1>Header title</h1>_x000D_
Some text aligns to the bottom_x000D_
</header>if you could set the height of the wrapping div of the content (#header-content as shown in other's reply), instead of the entire #header, maybe you can also try this approach:
HTML
<div id="header">
<h1>some title</h1>
<div id="header-content">
<span>
first line of header text<br>
second line of header text<br>
third, last line of header text
</span>
</div>
</div>
CSS
#header-content{
height:100px;
}
#header-content::before{
display:inline-block;
content:'';
height:100%;
vertical-align:bottom;
}
#header-content span{
display:inline-block;
}
Seems to be working:
HTML: I'm at the bottom
css:
h1.alignBtm {
line-height: 3em;
}
h1.alignBtm span {
line-height: 1.2em;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
I use these properties and it works!
#header {
display: table-cell;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
After struggling with this same issue for some time, I finally figured out a solution that meets all of my requirements:
- Does not require that I know the container's height.
- Unlike relative+absolute solutions, the content doesn't float in its own layer (i.e., it embeds normally in the container div).
- Works across browsers (IE8+).
- Simple to implement.
The solution just takes one <div>, which I call the "aligner":
CSS
.bottom_aligner {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: bottom;
width: 0px;
}
html
<div class="bottom_aligner"></div>
... Your content here ...
This trick works by creating a tall, skinny div, which pushes the text baseline to the bottom of the container.
Here is a complete example that achieves what the OP was asking for. I've made the "bottom_aligner" thick and red for demonstration purposes only.
CSS:
.outer-container {
border: 2px solid black;
height: 175px;
width: 300px;
}
.top-section {
background: lightgreen;
height: 50%;
}
.bottom-section {
background: lightblue;
height: 50%;
margin: 8px;
}
.bottom-aligner {
display: inline-block;
height: 100%;
vertical-align: bottom;
width: 3px;
background: red;
}
.bottom-content {
display: inline-block;
}
.top-content {
padding: 8px;
}
HTML:
<body>
<div class="outer-container">
<div class="top-section">
This text
<br> is on top.
</div>
<div class="bottom-section">
<div class="bottom-aligner"></div>
<div class="bottom-content">
I like it here
<br> at the bottom.
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
Use CSS positioning:
/* Creates a new stacking context on the header */
#header {
position: relative;
}
/* Positions header-content at the bottom of header's context */
#header-content {
position: absolute;
bottom: 0;
}
As cletus noted, you need identify the header-content to make this work.
<span id="header-content">some header content</span>
<div style="height:100%; position:relative;">
<div style="height:10%; position:absolute; bottom:0px;">bottom</div>
</div>
Inline or inline-block elements can be aligned to the bottom of block level elements if the line-height of the parent/block element is greater than that of the inline element.*
markup:
<h1 class="alignBtm"><span>I'm at the bottom</span></h1>
css:
h1.alignBtm {
line-height: 3em;
}
h1.alignBtm span {
line-height: 1.2em;
vertical-align: bottom;
}
*make sure you're in standards mode
If you have multiple, dynamic height items, use the CSS display values of table and table-cell:
HTML
<html>
<body>
<div class="valign bottom">
<div>
<div>my bottom aligned div 1</div>
<div>my bottom aligned div 2</div>
<div>my bottom aligned div 3</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
CSS
html,
body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.valign {
display: table;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.valign > div {
display: table-cell;
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
}
.valign.bottom > div {
vertical-align: bottom;
}
I've created a JSBin demo here: http://jsbin.com/INOnAkuF/2/edit
The demo also has an example how to vertically center align using the same technique.
All these answers and none worked for me... I'm no flexbox expert, but this was reasonably easy to figure out, it is simple and easy to understand and use. To separate something from the rest of the content, insert an empty div and let it grow to fill the space.
https://jsfiddle.net/8sfeLmgd/1/
.myContainer {
display: flex;
height: 250px;
flex-flow: column;
}
.filler {
flex: 1 1;
}
<div class="myContainer">
<div>Top</div>
<div class="filler"></div>
<div>Bottom</div>
</div>
This reacts as expected when the bottom content is not fixed sized also when the container is not fixed sized.
2015 solution
<div style='width:200px; height:60px; border:1px solid red;'>
<table width=100% height=100% cellspacing=0 cellpadding=0 border=0>
<tr><td valign=bottom>{$This_text_at_bottom}</td></tr>
</table>
</div>
http://codepen.io/anon/pen/qERMdx
your welcome
try with:
div.myclass { margin-top: 100%; }
try changing the % to fix it. Example: 120% or 90% ...etc.
Source: Stackoverflow.com