Sticky Footer, Five Ways

A brief history, if you will.

The purpose of a sticky footer is that it "sticks" to the bottom of the browser window. But not always, if there is enough content on the page to push the footer lower, it still does that. But if the content on the page is short, a sticky footer will still hang to the bottom of the browser window.

There is negative bottom margins on wrappers

There was a wrapping element that held everything …

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