How do I get a div to float to the bottom of its container

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I have floated images and inset boxes at the top of a container using float right  or left  many times  Recently I hit a need to float a div at the bottom right corner of another div with the normal text wrap that you get with float  text wrapped above and to the left only    I thought this must be relatively easy even though float has no bottom value but I haven t been able to do it using a number of techniques and searching the web hasn t come up with anything other than using absolute positioning but this doesn t give the correct word wrap behaviour   I had thought this would be a very common design but apparently it isn t  If nobody has a suggestion I ll have to break my text up into separate boxes and align the div manually but that is rather precarious and I d hate to have to do it on every page that needs it   EDIT  Just a note for anyone who comes here  The question linked above as a duplicate is in fact not a duplicate  The requirement that text wrap around the inset element makes it completely different  In fact  the response to the top voted answer here makes it clear why the answer in the linked question is wrong as a response to this question  Anyway  there still doesn t appear to be a general solution to this problem but some of the solutions posted here and in the linked question may work for specific cases

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Not sure  but a scenario posted earlier seemed to work if you use position  relative instead of absolute on the child div    parent     width  780px    height  250px    background  yellow    border  solid 2px red     child     position  relative    height  50px    width  780px    top  100     margin-top  -50px    background  blue    border  solid 2px green         lt div id  parent  gt      This has some text in it        lt div id  child  gt          This is just some text to show at the bottom of the page      lt  div gt   lt  div gt      And no tables

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With the introduction of Flexbox  this has become quite easy without much hacking  align-self  flex-end on the child element will align it along the cross-axis    container     display  flex     bottom     align-self  flex-end       lt div class  container  gt     lt div class  bottom  gt Bottom of the container lt  div gt   lt  div gt    Output    x000D   x000D   container   x000D    display  flex  x000D       Material design shadow    x000D    box-shadow  0 2px 2px 0 rgba 0  0  0  0 14   0 3px 1px -2px rgba 0  0  0  0 2   0 1px 5px 0 rgba 0  0  0  0 12   x000D    height  100px  x000D    width  175px  x000D    padding  10px  x000D    background   fff  x000D    font-family  Roboto  x000D    x000D   bottom   x000D    align-self  flex-end  x000D    x000D   lt div class  container  gt  x000D     lt div class  bottom  gt Bottom of the container lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Put the div in another div and set the parent div s style to position relative  Then on the child div set the following CSS properties  position absolute  bottom 0

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This puts a fixed div at the bottom of the page and fixes to the bottom as you scroll down   div       left  0      position  fixed      text-align  center      bottom  0      width  100

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I know that this stuff is old  but I recently ran into this problem    use absolute position divs advice is really silly  because the whole float thing kind of loses point with absolute positions     now  I did not find an universal solution  but in a lot of cases prople use floating divs just to display something in a row  like a series of span elements  and you can t vertically align that    to achieve a similar effect you can do this  do not make the div float  but set it s display property to inline-block  then you can align it vertically however it pleases you  you just need to set parent s div property vertical-align to either top  bottom  middle or baseline  i hope that helps someone

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here is my solution    lt style gt   sidebar-left float left width 200px   content-right float right width 700px    footer clear both position relative height 1px width 900px   bottom-element position absolute top -200px left 0 height 200px     lt  style gt    lt div class  sidebar-left  gt   lt p gt content    lt  p gt  lt  div gt   lt div class  content-right  gt   lt p gt content content content content    lt  p gt  lt  div gt    lt div class  footer  gt       lt div class  bottom-element  gt bottom-element-in-sidebar lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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A way to make it work is the following    Float your elements left like normal Rotate the parent div 180 degrees using   -moz-transform rotate 180deg   -webkit-transform rotate 180deg   -o-transform rotate 180deg   -ms-transform rotate 180deg   filter progid DXImageTransform Microsoft BasicImage rotation 2     JSfiddle  http   jsfiddle net wcneY  Now rotate all the elements that float left  give them a class  180 degrees to put them straight again  Voila  they float to the bottom

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One interesting approach is to stack a couple of right float elements on top of each other    lt div gt   lt div style  float right height 200px   gt  lt  div gt   lt div style  float right clear right   gt Floated content lt  div gt   lt p gt Other content lt  p gt   lt  div gt    Only problem is that this only works when you know the height of the box

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Pretty old question  but still     You can float a div to the bottom of the page like this   div    position  absolute     height  100px     top  100      margin-top -100px       You can see where the magic happens  I think you could do the same for floating it to the bottom of a parent div

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here is my solution    lt style gt   sidebar-left float left width 200px   content-right float right width 700px    footer clear both position relative height 1px width 900px   bottom-element position absolute top -200px left 0 height 200px     lt  style gt    lt div class  sidebar-left  gt   lt p gt content    lt  p gt  lt  div gt   lt div class  content-right  gt   lt p gt content content content content    lt  p gt  lt  div gt    lt div class  footer  gt       lt div class  bottom-element  gt bottom-element-in-sidebar lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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I got this to work on the first try by adding position absolute  bottom 0  to the div ID inside the CSS  I did not add the parent style position relative    It is working perfect in both Firefox and IE 8  have not tried it in IE 7 yet

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Oh  youngsters     Here you are    lt div class  block  gt       lt a href     gt Some Content with a very long description  Could be a Loren Ipsum or something like that  lt  a gt       lt span gt           lt span class  r-b  gt A right-bottom-block with some information lt  span gt       lt  span gt       lt span class  clearfix  gt  lt  span gt   lt  div gt   lt style gt       block           border   000 solid 1px              r-b           border   f00 solid 1px          background-color  fuchsia          float  right          width  33              clearfix  after           display  block          clear  both          content             lt  style gt    No absolute position  Responsive  OldSchool

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If you need relative alignment and DIV s still aren t give you what you want  just use tables and set valign    bottom  in the cell you want the content aligned to the bottom   I know it s not a great answer to your question since DIV s are supposed to replace tables  but this is what I had to do recently with an image caption and it has worked flawlessly so far

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One interesting approach is to stack a couple of right float elements on top of each other    lt div gt   lt div style  float right height 200px   gt  lt  div gt   lt div style  float right clear right   gt Floated content lt  div gt   lt p gt Other content lt  p gt   lt  div gt    Only problem is that this only works when you know the height of the box

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Oh  youngsters     Here you are    lt div class  block  gt       lt a href     gt Some Content with a very long description  Could be a Loren Ipsum or something like that  lt  a gt       lt span gt           lt span class  r-b  gt A right-bottom-block with some information lt  span gt       lt  span gt       lt span class  clearfix  gt  lt  span gt   lt  div gt   lt style gt       block           border   000 solid 1px              r-b           border   f00 solid 1px          background-color  fuchsia          float  right          width  33              clearfix  after           display  block          clear  both          content             lt  style gt    No absolute position  Responsive  OldSchool

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This puts a fixed div at the bottom of the page and fixes to the bottom as you scroll down   div       left  0      position  fixed      text-align  center      bottom  0      width  100

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Not sure  but a scenario posted earlier seemed to work if you use position  relative instead of absolute on the child div    parent     width  780px    height  250px    background  yellow    border  solid 2px red     child     position  relative    height  50px    width  780px    top  100     margin-top  -50px    background  blue    border  solid 2px green         lt div id  parent  gt      This has some text in it        lt div id  child  gt          This is just some text to show at the bottom of the page      lt  div gt   lt  div gt      And no tables

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This is now possible with flex box  Just set the  display  of parent div as  flex  and set the  margin-top  property to  auto   This does not distort any property of both the div    x000D   x000D   parent   x000D    display  flex  x000D    height  100px  x000D    border  solid 1px  0f0f0f  x000D    x000D   child   x000D    margin-top  auto  x000D    border  solid 1px  000  x000D    width  40px  x000D    word-break  break-all  x000D    x000D   lt div class   parent  gt  x000D     lt div class  child  gt I am at the bottom  lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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I know it is a very old thread but still I would like to answer  If anyone follow the below css  amp  html then it works  The child footer div will stick with bottom like glue    lt style gt           MainDiv                       height  300px              width  300px              background-color  Red              position  relative                      footerDiv                       height  50px              width  300px              background-color  green              float  right              position  absolute              bottom  0px                 lt  style gt     lt div id  MainDiv  gt        lt div id  footerDiv  gt        lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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Stu s answer comes the closest to working so far  but it still doesn t take into account the fact that your outer div s height may change  based on the way the text wraps inside of it  So  repositioning the inner div  by changing the height of the  pipe   only once won t be enough  That change has to occur inside of a loop  so you can continually check whether you ve achieved the right positioning yet  and readjust if needed   The CSS from the previous answer is still perfectly valid    outer       position  relative       inner       float right      position absolute      bottom 0      right 0      clear right     pipe       width 0px       float right      However  the Javascript should look more like this   var innerBottom  var totalHeight  var hadToReduce   false  var i   0  jQuery   inner   css  position   static    while true            Prevent endless loop     i        if  i  gt  5000    break         totalHeight   jQuery   outer   outerHeight        innerBottom   jQuery   inner   position   top   jQuery   inner   outerHeight        if  innerBottom  lt  totalHeight            if  hadToReduce     true                 jQuery   pipe   css  height         jQuery   pipe   height     1     px              else   break          else if  innerBottom  gt  totalHeight            jQuery   pipe   css  height         jQuery   pipe   height   - 1     px            hadToReduce   true        else   break

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If you want the text to wrap nicely -   x000D   x000D   outer   x000D    display  table  x000D    x000D   x000D   inner   x000D    height  200px  x000D    display  table-cell  x000D    vertical-align  bottom  x000D    x000D   x000D     Just for styling    x000D   inner   x000D    background   eee  x000D    padding  0 20px  x000D    x000D   lt  -- Need two parent elements -- gt  x000D   lt div class  outer  gt  x000D     lt div class  inner  gt  x000D       lt h3 gt Sample Heading lt  h3 gt  x000D       lt p gt Sample Paragragh lt  p gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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To put any element at the bottom of its container  just used this   div       position  absolute      bottom  0px

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Put the div in another div and set the parent div s style to position relative  Then on the child div set the following CSS properties  position absolute  bottom 0

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Although this is very complicated but it is possible  I have check this code on latest Firefox and Google Chrome browser  Older browser may not support the css shape-outside property  For further detail check this reference   x000D   x000D  window addEventListener  load   function       var imageHolder   document querySelector   image-holder       var containerHeight   document querySelector   container   offsetHeight     var imageHolderHeight   imageHolder offsetHeight     var countPadding   containerHeight - imageHolderHeight    imageHolder style paddingTop   countPadding    px     containerHeight   document querySelector   container   offsetHeight    var x1    0     px     countPadding    px      var x2   imageHolder offsetWidth    px          countPadding    px      var x3   imageHolder offsetWidth    px          containerHeight    px      var x4   0    px          containerHeight    px      var value    polygon     x1         x2         x3         x4           imageHolder style shapeOutside   value       x000D   container     width  300px    text-align  justify    border  1px solid black      image-holder     float  right    x000D   lt div class  container  style    gt     lt div class  image-holder  style    gt       lt img class  bottom-right  style  width  100px   src  https   www lwb org au services child-youth-and-family static b5cca79df7320248a77f6655a278190f a6c62 img-index-banner jpg  alt    gt     lt  div gt     lt div gt Lorem ipsum  dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit  Error quasi ut ipsam saepe  dignissimos  accusamus debitis ratione neque doloribus quis exercitationem iure  Harum quisquam ipsam velit distinctio tempora repudiandae eveniet  lt  div gt    lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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A way to make it work is the following    Float your elements left like normal Rotate the parent div 180 degrees using   -moz-transform rotate 180deg   -webkit-transform rotate 180deg   -o-transform rotate 180deg   -ms-transform rotate 180deg   filter progid DXImageTransform Microsoft BasicImage rotation 2     JSfiddle  http   jsfiddle net wcneY  Now rotate all the elements that float left  give them a class  180 degrees to put them straight again  Voila  they float to the bottom

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I tried several of these techniques  and the following worked for me  so if all else here if all else fails then try this because it worked for me        lt style gt     footer       height 30px      margin  0      clear  both      width 100       position  relative      bottom -10       lt  style gt    lt div id  footer   gt Sportkin - the registry for sport lt  div gt

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I got this to work on the first try by adding position absolute  bottom 0  to the div ID inside the CSS  I did not add the parent style position relative    It is working perfect in both Firefox and IE 8  have not tried it in IE 7 yet

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simple      in the html file right    have the  footer   or the div you want at the bottom  at the bottom  So dont do this    lt div id  container  gt       lt div id  Header  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Footer  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Content  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Sidebar  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    DO THIS   have the footer underneath     lt div id  container  gt       lt div id  Header  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Content  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Sidebar  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Footer  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    After doing this then you can go the css file and have the  sidebar  float to the left  then have  content  float to the right then have  footer  clear both   that should work did for me

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To use css margin-top property with purpose to set footer to the bottom of its container  And to use css  text-align-last property to set the footer contents at center     lt div class  container  style  margin-top  700px   text-align-last  center    gt         lt p gt My footer Here lt  p gt      lt  div gt

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Put the div in another div and set the parent div s style to position relative  Then on the child div set the following CSS properties  position absolute  bottom 0

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I tried several of these techniques  and the following worked for me  so if all else here if all else fails then try this because it worked for me        lt style gt     footer       height 30px      margin  0      clear  both      width 100       position  relative      bottom -10       lt  style gt    lt div id  footer   gt Sportkin - the registry for sport lt  div gt

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To use css margin-top property with purpose to set footer to the bottom of its container  And to use css  text-align-last property to set the footer contents at center     lt div class  container  style  margin-top  700px   text-align-last  center    gt         lt p gt My footer Here lt  p gt      lt  div gt

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an alternative answer is the judicious use of tables and rowspan  by setting all table cells on the preceeding line  except the main content one  to be rowspan  2  you will always get a one cell hole at the bottom of your main table cell that you can always put valign  bottom    You can also set its height to be the minimum you need for one line  Thus you will always get your favourite line of text at the bottom regardless of how much space the rest of the text takes up   I tried all the div answers  I was unable to get them to do what I needed    lt table gt   lt tr gt      lt td valign  top  gt       this is just some random text       lt br gt  that should be a couple of lines long and       lt br gt  is at the top of where we need the bottom tag line     lt  td gt      lt td rowspan  2  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       is really lt br  gt       tall    lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt     lt td valign  bottom  gt        now this is the tagline we need on the bottom    lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt  table gt

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I would just do a table    lt div class  elastic  gt     lt div class  elastic col valign-bottom  gt      bottom-aligned content     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    And the CSS    elastic     display  table     elastic col     display  table-cell     valign-bottom     vertical-align  bottom      See it in action  http   jsfiddle net mLphM 1

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If you re okay with only the bottom-most line of the text going to the side of the block  as opposed to completely around and underneath it  which you can t do without ending the block and starting a new one   it s not impossible to float a block to one of the bottom corners of a parent block  If you put some content in a paragraph tag within a block and want to float a link to the bottom right corner of the block  put the link within the paragraph block and set it to float  right  then put in a div tag with clear  both set just underneath the end of the paragraph tag  The last div is to make sure the parent tag surrounds the floated tags    lt div class  article  style  display  block   gt       lt h3 gt title lt  h3 gt           lt p gt              text content              lt a href     style  display  block float  right   gt Read More lt  a gt           lt  p gt       lt div style  clear  both   gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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Although this is very complicated but it is possible  I have check this code on latest Firefox and Google Chrome browser  Older browser may not support the css shape-outside property  For further detail check this reference   x000D   x000D  window addEventListener  load   function       var imageHolder   document querySelector   image-holder       var containerHeight   document querySelector   container   offsetHeight     var imageHolderHeight   imageHolder offsetHeight     var countPadding   containerHeight - imageHolderHeight    imageHolder style paddingTop   countPadding    px     containerHeight   document querySelector   container   offsetHeight    var x1    0     px     countPadding    px      var x2   imageHolder offsetWidth    px          countPadding    px      var x3   imageHolder offsetWidth    px          containerHeight    px      var x4   0    px          containerHeight    px      var value    polygon     x1         x2         x3         x4           imageHolder style shapeOutside   value       x000D   container     width  300px    text-align  justify    border  1px solid black      image-holder     float  right    x000D   lt div class  container  style    gt     lt div class  image-holder  style    gt       lt img class  bottom-right  style  width  100px   src  https   www lwb org au services child-youth-and-family static b5cca79df7320248a77f6655a278190f a6c62 img-index-banner jpg  alt    gt     lt  div gt     lt div gt Lorem ipsum  dolor sit amet consectetur adipisicing elit  Error quasi ut ipsam saepe  dignissimos  accusamus debitis ratione neque doloribus quis exercitationem iure  Harum quisquam ipsam velit distinctio tempora repudiandae eveniet  lt  div gt    lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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A chose this approach of  dave-kok  But it works only if the whole content suits without scrolling  I appreciate if somebody will improve  outer       position  absolute      bottom  0      width  100       height  100      space       float  right      height  75        floateable       width  40       height  25       float  right      clear  right         Here is code  http   jsfiddle net d9t9joh2

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I have acheived this in JQuery  by putting  a zero width strut element above the float right  then sizing the strut  or pipe  according to parent height minus floated child s height   Before js kicks in I am using the position absolute approach  which works but allows text flow behind   Therefore I switch to position static to enable the strut approach   header is the parent element  cutout is the one i want bottom right  and pipe is my strut      header  pipe   each function          this  next   cutout   css  position   static                 this  height   this  parent   height  -  this  next   cutout   height                                                            CSS  header      position  relative      header img cutout      float right      position absolute      bottom 0      right 0      clear right   header  pipe      width 0px       float right      The pipe must come 1st  then the cutout  then the text in the HTML order

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I tried this scenario posted earlier also   div     position  absolute     height  100px     top  100      margin-top -100px       The absolute positioning fixes the div to the lowest part of the browser upon loading the page  but when you scroll down if the page is longer it does not scroll with you  I changed the positioning to be relative and it works perfect  The div goes straight to the bottom upon load so you won t actually see it until you get to the bottom   div         position  relative        height 100px     Or the height of your image          top  100         margin-top  -100px

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I tried this scenario posted earlier also   div     position  absolute     height  100px     top  100      margin-top -100px       The absolute positioning fixes the div to the lowest part of the browser upon loading the page  but when you scroll down if the page is longer it does not scroll with you  I changed the positioning to be relative and it works perfect  The div goes straight to the bottom upon load so you won t actually see it until you get to the bottom   div         position  relative        height 100px     Or the height of your image          top  100         margin-top  -100px

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If you set the parent element as position relative  you can set the child to the bottom setting position absolute  and bottom 0    x000D   x000D   outer   x000D    width 10em  x000D    height 10em  x000D    background-color blue  x000D    position relative   x000D    x000D   x000D   inner   x000D    position absolute  x000D    bottom 0  x000D    background-color white   x000D    x000D   lt div id  outer  gt  x000D     lt div id  inner  gt  x000D       lt h1 gt done lt  h1 gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D     x000D   x000D   x000D

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After struggling with various techniques for a couple of days I have to say that this appears to be impossible  Even using javascript  which I don t want to do  it doesn t seem possible   To clarify for those who may not have understood - this is what I am looking for  in publishing it is quite common to layout an inset  picture  table  figure  etc   so that its bottom lines up with the bottom of the last line of text of a block  or page  with text flowing around the inset in a natural manner above and to the right or left depending on which side of the page the inset is on  In html css it is trivial to use the float style to line up the top of an inset with the top of a block but to my surprise it appears impossible to line up the bottom of the text and inset despite it being a common layout task   I guess I ll have to revisit the design goals for this item unless anyone has a last minute suggestion

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If you want the text to wrap nicely -   x000D   x000D   outer   x000D    display  table  x000D    x000D   x000D   inner   x000D    height  200px  x000D    display  table-cell  x000D    vertical-align  bottom  x000D    x000D   x000D     Just for styling    x000D   inner   x000D    background   eee  x000D    padding  0 20px  x000D    x000D   lt  -- Need two parent elements -- gt  x000D   lt div class  outer  gt  x000D     lt div class  inner  gt  x000D       lt h3 gt Sample Heading lt  h3 gt  x000D       lt p gt Sample Paragragh lt  p gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Pretty old question  but still     You can float a div to the bottom of the page like this   div    position  absolute     height  100px     top  100      margin-top -100px       You can see where the magic happens  I think you could do the same for floating it to the bottom of a parent div

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A combination of floating and absolute positioning does the work for me  I was attempting to place the send time of a message at the bottom-right corner of the speech bubble  The time should never overlap the message body and it will not inflate the bubble unless it s really necessary  The solution works like this   there re two spans with identical text  one is floated but invisible  the other is absolutely positioned to the corner   The purpose of the invisible floated one is to ensure space for the visible one   x000D   x000D   speech-bubble     font-size  16px    max-width  240px    margin  10px    display  inline-block    background-color   ccc    border-radius  5px    padding  5px    position  relative      inline-time     float  right    padding-left  10px    color  red      giant-text     font-size  36px      tremendous-giant-text     font-size  72px      absolute-time     position  absolute    color  green    right  5px    bottom  5px      hidden     visibility  hidden    x000D   lt ul gt     lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        This text is supposed to wrap the time  amp lt span amp gt  which always seats at the corner of this bubble         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 55 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Absolute positioning doesn t work because it doesn t care if the two pieces of text overlap  We want to float         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 55 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt      lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Easy  uh         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 55 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Well  not  lt span class  giant-text  gt THAT lt  span gt        easy        lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt See  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        The problem is  we can t tell the span to float to right AND bottom           lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        We can combinate float and absolute  use floated span to reserve space  the bubble will be inflated if necessary  so that the absoluted span is safe to go         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt See  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt         lt span class  absolute-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Make the floated span invisible         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt See  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time hidden  gt 13 56 lt  span gt         lt span class  absolute-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        The giant text here is to simulate images which are common in a typical chat app         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt Done  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time hidden  gt 13 56 lt  span gt         lt span class  absolute-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt   lt  ul gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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I know that this stuff is old  but I recently ran into this problem    use absolute position divs advice is really silly  because the whole float thing kind of loses point with absolute positions     now  I did not find an universal solution  but in a lot of cases prople use floating divs just to display something in a row  like a series of span elements  and you can t vertically align that    to achieve a similar effect you can do this  do not make the div float  but set it s display property to inline-block  then you can align it vertically however it pleases you  you just need to set parent s div property vertical-align to either top  bottom  middle or baseline  i hope that helps someone

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A chose this approach of  dave-kok  But it works only if the whole content suits without scrolling  I appreciate if somebody will improve  outer       position  absolute      bottom  0      width  100       height  100      space       float  right      height  75        floateable       width  40       height  25       float  right      clear  right         Here is code  http   jsfiddle net d9t9joh2

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Set the parent div to position  relative  then the inner div to      position  absolute   bottom  0       and there you go

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If you need relative alignment and DIV s still aren t give you what you want  just use tables and set valign    bottom  in the cell you want the content aligned to the bottom   I know it s not a great answer to your question since DIV s are supposed to replace tables  but this is what I had to do recently with an image caption and it has worked flawlessly so far

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After struggling with various techniques for a couple of days I have to say that this appears to be impossible  Even using javascript  which I don t want to do  it doesn t seem possible   To clarify for those who may not have understood - this is what I am looking for  in publishing it is quite common to layout an inset  picture  table  figure  etc   so that its bottom lines up with the bottom of the last line of text of a block  or page  with text flowing around the inset in a natural manner above and to the right or left depending on which side of the page the inset is on  In html css it is trivial to use the float style to line up the top of an inset with the top of a block but to my surprise it appears impossible to line up the bottom of the text and inset despite it being a common layout task   I guess I ll have to revisit the design goals for this item unless anyone has a last minute suggestion

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You could try using an empty element with a 1px width and floating it  Then clear the element you actually want to position and use the height of the empty element to control how far down it goes    http   codepen io cssgrid pen KNYrey    invisible   float  left        bottom   float  left  padding-right  35px  padding-top  30px  clear  left

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A combination of floating and absolute positioning does the work for me  I was attempting to place the send time of a message at the bottom-right corner of the speech bubble  The time should never overlap the message body and it will not inflate the bubble unless it s really necessary  The solution works like this   there re two spans with identical text  one is floated but invisible  the other is absolutely positioned to the corner   The purpose of the invisible floated one is to ensure space for the visible one   x000D   x000D   speech-bubble     font-size  16px    max-width  240px    margin  10px    display  inline-block    background-color   ccc    border-radius  5px    padding  5px    position  relative      inline-time     float  right    padding-left  10px    color  red      giant-text     font-size  36px      tremendous-giant-text     font-size  72px      absolute-time     position  absolute    color  green    right  5px    bottom  5px      hidden     visibility  hidden    x000D   lt ul gt     lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        This text is supposed to wrap the time  amp lt span amp gt  which always seats at the corner of this bubble         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 55 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Absolute positioning doesn t work because it doesn t care if the two pieces of text overlap  We want to float         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 55 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt      lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Easy  uh         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 55 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Well  not  lt span class  giant-text  gt THAT lt  span gt        easy        lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt See  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        The problem is  we can t tell the span to float to right AND bottom           lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        We can combinate float and absolute  use floated span to reserve space  the bubble will be inflated if necessary  so that the absoluted span is safe to go         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt See  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt         lt span class  absolute-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        Make the floated span invisible         lt span class  inline-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt See  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time hidden  gt 13 56 lt  span gt         lt span class  absolute-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt        lt li gt       lt span class  speech-bubble  gt        The giant text here is to simulate images which are common in a typical chat app         lt span class  tremendous-giant-text  gt Done  lt  span gt         lt span class  inline-time hidden  gt 13 56 lt  span gt         lt span class  absolute-time  gt 13 56 lt  span gt       lt  span gt     lt  li gt   lt  ul gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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Set the parent div to position  relative  then the inner div to      position  absolute   bottom  0       and there you go

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If you re okay with only the bottom-most line of the text going to the side of the block  as opposed to completely around and underneath it  which you can t do without ending the block and starting a new one   it s not impossible to float a block to one of the bottom corners of a parent block  If you put some content in a paragraph tag within a block and want to float a link to the bottom right corner of the block  put the link within the paragraph block and set it to float  right  then put in a div tag with clear  both set just underneath the end of the paragraph tag  The last div is to make sure the parent tag surrounds the floated tags    lt div class  article  style  display  block   gt       lt h3 gt title lt  h3 gt           lt p gt              text content              lt a href     style  display  block float  right   gt Read More lt  a gt           lt  p gt       lt div style  clear  both   gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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simple      in the html file right    have the  footer   or the div you want at the bottom  at the bottom  So dont do this    lt div id  container  gt       lt div id  Header  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Footer  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Content  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Sidebar  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    DO THIS   have the footer underneath     lt div id  container  gt       lt div id  Header  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Content  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Sidebar  gt  lt  div gt       lt div id  Footer  gt  lt  div gt   lt  div gt    After doing this then you can go the css file and have the  sidebar  float to the left  then have  content  float to the right then have  footer  clear both   that should work did for me

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With the introduction of Flexbox  this has become quite easy without much hacking  align-self  flex-end on the child element will align it along the cross-axis    container     display  flex     bottom     align-self  flex-end       lt div class  container  gt     lt div class  bottom  gt Bottom of the container lt  div gt   lt  div gt    Output    x000D   x000D   container   x000D    display  flex  x000D       Material design shadow    x000D    box-shadow  0 2px 2px 0 rgba 0  0  0  0 14   0 3px 1px -2px rgba 0  0  0  0 2   0 1px 5px 0 rgba 0  0  0  0 12   x000D    height  100px  x000D    width  175px  x000D    padding  10px  x000D    background   fff  x000D    font-family  Roboto  x000D    x000D   bottom   x000D    align-self  flex-end  x000D    x000D   lt div class  container  gt  x000D     lt div class  bottom  gt Bottom of the container lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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If you set the parent element as position relative  you can set the child to the bottom setting position absolute  and bottom 0    x000D   x000D   outer   x000D    width 10em  x000D    height 10em  x000D    background-color blue  x000D    position relative   x000D    x000D   x000D   inner   x000D    position absolute  x000D    bottom 0  x000D    background-color white   x000D    x000D   lt div id  outer  gt  x000D     lt div id  inner  gt  x000D       lt h1 gt done lt  h1 gt  x000D     lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D     x000D   x000D   x000D

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an alternative answer is the judicious use of tables and rowspan  by setting all table cells on the preceeding line  except the main content one  to be rowspan  2  you will always get a one cell hole at the bottom of your main table cell that you can always put valign  bottom    You can also set its height to be the minimum you need for one line  Thus you will always get your favourite line of text at the bottom regardless of how much space the rest of the text takes up   I tried all the div answers  I was unable to get them to do what I needed    lt table gt   lt tr gt      lt td valign  top  gt       this is just some random text       lt br gt  that should be a couple of lines long and       lt br gt  is at the top of where we need the bottom tag line     lt  td gt      lt td rowspan  2  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       this lt br  gt       is really lt br  gt       tall    lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt tr gt     lt td valign  bottom  gt        now this is the tagline we need on the bottom    lt  td gt   lt  tr gt   lt  table gt

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Stu s answer comes the closest to working so far  but it still doesn t take into account the fact that your outer div s height may change  based on the way the text wraps inside of it  So  repositioning the inner div  by changing the height of the  pipe   only once won t be enough  That change has to occur inside of a loop  so you can continually check whether you ve achieved the right positioning yet  and readjust if needed   The CSS from the previous answer is still perfectly valid    outer       position  relative       inner       float right      position absolute      bottom 0      right 0      clear right     pipe       width 0px       float right      However  the Javascript should look more like this   var innerBottom  var totalHeight  var hadToReduce   false  var i   0  jQuery   inner   css  position   static    while true            Prevent endless loop     i        if  i  gt  5000    break         totalHeight   jQuery   outer   outerHeight        innerBottom   jQuery   inner   position   top   jQuery   inner   outerHeight        if  innerBottom  lt  totalHeight            if  hadToReduce     true                 jQuery   pipe   css  height         jQuery   pipe   height     1     px              else   break          else if  innerBottom  gt  totalHeight            jQuery   pipe   css  height         jQuery   pipe   height   - 1     px            hadToReduce   true        else   break

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This is now possible with flex box  Just set the  display  of parent div as  flex  and set the  margin-top  property to  auto   This does not distort any property of both the div    x000D   x000D   parent   x000D    display  flex  x000D    height  100px  x000D    border  solid 1px  0f0f0f  x000D    x000D   child   x000D    margin-top  auto  x000D    border  solid 1px  000  x000D    width  40px  x000D    word-break  break-all  x000D    x000D   lt div class   parent  gt  x000D     lt div class  child  gt I am at the bottom  lt  div gt  x000D   lt  div gt  x000D   x000D   x000D

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After struggling with various techniques for a couple of days I have to say that this appears to be impossible  Even using javascript  which I don t want to do  it doesn t seem possible   To clarify for those who may not have understood - this is what I am looking for  in publishing it is quite common to layout an inset  picture  table  figure  etc   so that its bottom lines up with the bottom of the last line of text of a block  or page  with text flowing around the inset in a natural manner above and to the right or left depending on which side of the page the inset is on  In html css it is trivial to use the float style to line up the top of an inset with the top of a block but to my surprise it appears impossible to line up the bottom of the text and inset despite it being a common layout task   I guess I ll have to revisit the design goals for this item unless anyone has a last minute suggestion

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After struggling with various techniques for a couple of days I have to say that this appears to be impossible  Even using javascript  which I don t want to do  it doesn t seem possible   To clarify for those who may not have understood - this is what I am looking for  in publishing it is quite common to layout an inset  picture  table  figure  etc   so that its bottom lines up with the bottom of the last line of text of a block  or page  with text flowing around the inset in a natural manner above and to the right or left depending on which side of the page the inset is on  In html css it is trivial to use the float style to line up the top of an inset with the top of a block but to my surprise it appears impossible to line up the bottom of the text and inset despite it being a common layout task   I guess I ll have to revisit the design goals for this item unless anyone has a last minute suggestion

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I know it is a very old thread but still I would like to answer  If anyone follow the below css  amp  html then it works  The child footer div will stick with bottom like glue    lt style gt           MainDiv                       height  300px              width  300px              background-color  Red              position  relative                      footerDiv                       height  50px              width  300px              background-color  green              float  right              position  absolute              bottom  0px                 lt  style gt     lt div id  MainDiv  gt        lt div id  footerDiv  gt        lt  div gt   lt  div gt

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Set the parent div to position  relative  then the inner div to      position  absolute   bottom  0       and there you go

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I had been find this solution for a long time as well  This is what I get   align-self  flex-end   link  https   philipwalton github io solved-by-flexbox demos vertical-centering  However  I can t remember from where I opened this link  Hope it helps

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I have acheived this in JQuery  by putting  a zero width strut element above the float right  then sizing the strut  or pipe  according to parent height minus floated child s height   Before js kicks in I am using the position absolute approach  which works but allows text flow behind   Therefore I switch to position static to enable the strut approach   header is the parent element  cutout is the one i want bottom right  and pipe is my strut      header  pipe   each function          this  next   cutout   css  position   static                 this  height   this  parent   height  -  this  next   cutout   height                                                            CSS  header      position  relative      header img cutout      float right      position absolute      bottom 0      right 0      clear right   header  pipe      width 0px       float right      The pipe must come 1st  then the cutout  then the text in the HTML order

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Set the parent div to position  relative  then the inner div to      position  absolute   bottom  0       and there you go

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To put any element at the bottom of its container  just used this   div       position  absolute      bottom  0px

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I had been find this solution for a long time as well  This is what I get   align-self  flex-end   link  https   philipwalton github io solved-by-flexbox demos vertical-centering  However  I can t remember from where I opened this link  Hope it helps

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You could try using an empty element with a 1px width and floating it  Then clear the element you actually want to position and use the height of the empty element to control how far down it goes    http   codepen io cssgrid pen KNYrey    invisible   float  left        bottom   float  left  padding-right  35px  padding-top  30px  clear  left

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I would just do a table    lt div class  elastic  gt     lt div class  elastic col valign-bottom  gt      bottom-aligned content     lt  div gt   lt  div gt    And the CSS    elastic     display  table     elastic col     display  table-cell     valign-bottom     vertical-align  bottom      See it in action  http   jsfiddle net mLphM 1

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Put the div in another div and set the parent div s style to position relative  Then on the child div set the following CSS properties  position absolute  bottom 0

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