I'm trying to use a flexbox-based layout to get a sticky footer for my page. This works well in Chrome and Firefox, but in IE11 the footer sits just after my main content. In other words, the main content isn't stretched to fill all of the available space.
body {
border: red 1px solid;
min-height: 100vh;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-ms-flex-direction: column;
-webkit-flex-direction: column;
flex-direction: column;
}
header, footer {
background: #dd55dd;
}
main {
background: #87ccfc;
-ms-flex: 1 0 auto;
-webkit-flex: 1 0 auto;
flex: 1 0 auto;
}<body>
<header role="banner"><h1> .. </h1></header>
<main role="main">
<p>.....</p>
</main>
<footer>...</footer>
</body>How can I get the main element to stretch in a flex layout when the containers height units are measured in vh in IE? I was looking to see if this behaviour is the result of a bug in the way IE implements the flexbox specs, but I couldn't find any mention of this problem elsewhere.
The issue isn't vh units but min-height
I found a semi-working CSS-only solution:
min-height: 100vh;
height: 100px;
The extra height will enable IE to fill the screen vertically even if the content is not tall enough. The drawback is that IE will no longer wrap the content if it's longer than the viewport.
Since this is not enough I made a solution in JS:
Detection
This function tests the bug: true means it's buggy.
function hasBug () {
// inner should fill outer
// if inner's height is 0, the browser has the bug
// set up
var outer = document.createElement('div');
var inner = document.createElement('div');
outer.setAttribute('style', 'display:-ms-flexbox; display:flex; min-height:100vh;');
outer.appendChild(inner);
(document.body || document.documentElement).appendChild(outer);
// test
var bug = !inner.offsetHeight;
// remove setup
outer.parentNode.removeChild(outer);
return bug;
}
Fix
The fix consists of manually setting the height of the element in px
function fixElementHeight (el) {
// reset any previously set height
el.style.height = 'auto';
// get el height (the one set via min-height in vh)
var height = el.offsetHeight;
// manually set it in pixels
el.style.height = height + 'px';
}
The element's height will be set to exactly the height of its content. height is used as a secondary min-height in IE, using the behavior observed in the CSS-only solution.
Usage
Once those two functions are defined, set it up this way:
if(hasBug()) {
// fix the element now
fixElementHeight(el);
// update the height on resize
window.addEventListener('resize', function () {
fixElementHeight(el);
});
}
Demo
function hasBug () {
// inner should fill outer
// if inner's height is 0, the browser has the bug
// set up
var outer = document.createElement('div');
var inner = document.createElement('div');
outer.setAttribute('style', 'display:-ms-flexbox; display:flex; min-height:100vh;');
outer.appendChild(inner);
(document.body || document.documentElement).appendChild(outer);
// test
var bug = !inner.offsetHeight;
// remove setup
outer.parentNode.removeChild(outer);
return bug;
}
function fixElementHeight (el) {
// reset any previously set height
el.style.height = 'auto';
// get el height (the one set via min-height in vh)
var height = el.offsetHeight;
// manually set it in pixels
el.style.height = height + 'px';
}
var output = document.getElementById('output');
output.innerHTML = hasBug()?'Browser is buggy':'Browser works correctly';
var el = document.getElementById('flex');
if(hasBug()) {
// fix the element now
fixElementHeight(el);
// update the height on resize
window.addEventListener('resize', function () {
fixElementHeight(el);
});
}.half-screen {
display:-ms-flexbox;
display: flex;
min-height: 50vh;
padding: 10px;
background: #97cef0;
}
.content {
padding: 10px;
background: #b5daf0;
}The inner box should fill the outer box vertically, even if the browser is buggy.
<div class="half-screen" id="flex">
<div class="content" id="output">
Text
</div>
</div>I came across this same bug yesterday and couldn't solve it by myself either. Unfortunately, seems nothing can be done about it, at the moment, because it's IE bug, which have been reported to the Microsoft developers almost a year ago, here:
The trick I've found to getting sticky footers working in IE11 is to make sure flex-basis is 100% or even 100vh. Please see an example below or a live Codepen example that you can test in IE11.
html {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
}
body {
display: flex;
flex-direction: column;
flex-grow: 1;
flex-basis: 100%;
min-height: 100vh;
}
header {
padding: 32px;
background-color: seagreen;
}
main {
flex-grow: 1;
padding: 32px;
background-color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.05);
}
footer {
padding: 32px;
background-color: coral;
}<header>
Header
</header>
<main>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
<p>I will not skateboard in the halls.</p>
</main>
<footer>
Footer
</footer>Usually this helps:
html, body {
height: 100%;
}
.. and you don't have to use vh units.
Full sample:
* {
margin: 0;
}
html,
body {
height: 100%;
}
body {
border: red 1px solid;
display: -ms-flexbox;
display: -webkit-flex;
display: flex;
-ms-flex-direction: column;
-webkit-flex-direction: column;
flex-direction: column;
}
header,
footer {
background: #dd55dd;
}
main {
background: #87ccfc;
-ms-flex: 1;
-webkit-flex: 1;
flex: 1;
overflow-y: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}<header>
<h1>Herons - How they plan to eat your eyes!</h1>
</header>
<main>
Herons are foul and devious birds.
</main>
<footer>
<small>© 2014 Institute for the prevention of Herons</small>
</footer>来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/25177791/are-flexbox-and-vh-height-units-not-compatible-in-ie11