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.