@charset "UTF-8"; * {margin:0;padding:0;} /* must declare 0 margins on everything, also for main layout components use padding, not vertical margins (top and bottom) to add spacing, else those margins get added to total height and your footer gets pushed down a bit more, creating vertical scroll bars in the browser */ html, body {height: 100%;} /*Opera Fix*/ body:before {/* thanks to Maleika (Kohoutec)*/ content:""; height:100%; float:left; width:0; margin-top:-32767px;/* thank you Erik J - negate effect of float*/ } /* IMPORTANT You also need to include this conditional style in the of your HTML file to feed this style to IE 6 and lower and 8 and higher. [if !IE 7]>