How to push a footer to the bottom of page when content is short or missing?

Question

I have a page with an outer div that wraps a header, content and footer div. I want the footer div to hug the bottom of the browser, even when the content div is not tall e

Answer 1

You can do exactly what you want using Flexbox, as an example will be:

html, body {
    height: 100%;
    width: 100%;
}

.wrapper {
    display: flex;
    flex-direction: column;
    min-height: 100%;
}

.content {
    flex-grow: 1;
}

as a note the footer must be outside the content element

html structure will be something like follow: