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CSS CSS Layout Basics Getting Started with CSS Layout Centering Page Content and Creating a Full-width Header

Tomasz Cysewski
Tomasz Cysewski
2,736 Points
Posted by Tomasz Cysewski
Tomasz Cysewski
2,736 Points

Setting fixed footer - Why in my case proper min-height is 130px instead of 114px? 

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
    <title>Best City Guide</title>
  <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css">
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
  <div class="wrap" >
     <header class="main-header">
     <div class="container">
        <h1 class="name"><a href="#">Best City Guide</a></h1>
        <ul class="main-nav">
          <li><a href="#">ice cream</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">donuts</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">tea</a></li>
          <li><a href="#">coffee</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
    </header>
    <div class="container">
      <h2>Welcome!</h2>
      <p>Everything in this city is worth waiting in line for.</p>
      <p>Cupcake ipsum dolor sit. Amet chocolate cake gummies jelly beans candy bonbon brownie candy. Gingerbread powder muffin. Icing cotton candy. Croissant icing pie ice cream brownie I love cheesecake cookie. Pastry chocolate pastry jelly croissant.</p>
      <p>Cake sesame snaps sweet tart candy canes tiramisu I love oat cake chocolate bar. Jelly beans pastry brownie sugar plum pastry bear claw tiramisu tootsie roll. Tootsie roll wafer I love chocolate donuts.</p>

      <h2>Great food</h2>
      <p>Croissant macaroon pie brownie. Cookie marshmallow liquorice gingerbread caramels toffee I love chocolate. Wafer lollipop dessert. Bonbon jelly beans pudding dessert sugar plum. Marzipan toffee drag&#233;e chocolate bar candy toffee pudding I love. Gummi bears pie gingerbread lollipop.</p>
    </div>
</div>
    <footer class="main-footer">
        <p>&copy;2015 Residents of The Best City Ever.</p>
    </footer>

</body>
</html>

*{
  box-sizing: border-box;
}


.container{
  padding: 0 1em;
}

.name{
    margin-top: 0;
}
.main-header {

  background: #3acec2;
}

.main-footer {
  text-align: center;
  padding: 2em 0;
  background: grey; 
}

@media (min-width: 700px){
  .wrap{
    min-height: calc(100vh - 130px);
  }
  .container{
      width: 70%;
      max-width: 1000px;
      margin: 0 auto;
  }
}

As I looked with chrome tools height of footer is 114 and that's value should be substracted from 100vh. How ever that code adds scrollbar-y. Why is that? Only value 130 works properly. I understand that paragraphs inside can cause that(margin: 16px 0;). But I used box-sizing. Thanks for help.

Gustavo Winter
Gustavo Winter
Courses Plus Student 27,382 Points
Gustavo Winter
Gustavo Winter
Courses Plus Student 27,382 Points

It is necessary to take into account that the tool itself takes up a space (pixel) is probably what is causing the difference of values

By the way, if isnt it please post the correct answer for i can see too

1 Answer

Dmitriy An
Dmitriy An
11,795 Points
Dmitriy An
Dmitriy An
11,795 Points

But where did you set min-height of footer to 114 or where did you get these numbers? The only thing I see now it top and bottom padding of 2ems.