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jackowayed
That's cool. I think the most surprising part, upon reading the CSS, is that the only special fixes are for Opera and IE8. So IE7 and IE6 just work.
eam
And it validates!
ErrantX
Indeed; but there is the general caveat that you can only use padding to space elements and not margin, which is a bit clunky.
briansmith
It isn't working on IE8.
RevRal
It worked in IE8 for me.

What exactly goes wrong in IE8 for you?

MichaelGG
Seems to need a horizonal resize to take effect. Just resizing vertically doesn't do anything.
RevRal
That's unfortunate.

I tested this in IE8 by zooming out. Didn't expect a problem since that worked.

ck2
Do y'all really care for this on websites you use?

It drives me crazy when I am scrolling a large page if there is nothing useful down there, and I immediately adblock it.

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voidpointer
This is a good example of what is still utterly wrong today with HTML/CSS implementations. I appreciate the work and the fact that it is shared with the public. The fact that you still have to deal with this sort of markup in 2010 is really sad.
wrinklz
It's cool, but why not just stick a minimum height in your content div?
Pheter
That wouldn't work very well because it may add scrolling to your page when it isn't necessary.
terryjsmith
Same technique, tested in IE6 to IE8, FF, Chrome, Safari and Opera; no conditionals:

    html, body, #canvas { height: 100%; }

    body > #canvas {
        height: auto; 
        min-height: 100%;
    }

    #canvas {
        width: 100%;
        position: absolute;
    }

    #footer {
        position: absolute;
        bottom: 0;
    }
HTML:

    <body>
        <div id="canvas">
            <!-- all of your other code -->
            <div id="footer"></div>
        </div>
    </body>
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