For some odd reason in firefox I get an issue with my code, my "footer" refuses to locate itself bellow the content... even though my css is correct... can someone please take a look and tell me how I messed up?
*I realize I have no text on the site, I'm currently blocking it out.

HTML:

UBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="default.css">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Digital Den Entertainment</title>
</head>

<body>

	<div id="pageWrapper">
	
		<div id="page">
		
			<div id="header">
			
				<div id="logo"></div><!-- /logo -->
				
				<div id="search"></div><!-- /search -->
				
				<div id="topLinks"></div><!-- /topLinks -->
			
			</div><!-- /header-->
			
			<div id="primaryNavContainer"></div><!-- /primaryNavContainer -->
			
			<div id="content">
			
				<div id="left"></div><!-- /left -->
				
				<div id="right">
	
					<div id="main"></div><!-- /main -->

				</div><!-- /right-->
			
			</div><!-- /content -->
			
			<div id="footer">
			
				<div id="footL1"></div><!-- /footL1 -->
				
				<div id="footL2"></div><!-- /footL2 -->
				
				<div id="footR2"></div><!-- /footR2 -->
				
				<div id="footR1"></div><!-- /footR1 -->
				
				<div id="legal"></div><!-- /legal -->
				
			</div><!-- /footer -->
		
		</div><!-- /page -->
	
	</div><!-- pageWrapper -->

</body>

</html>

CSS:

/* @START GLOBAL RESET*/
html, body, div, span, applet, object, iframe,
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p, blockquote, pre,
a, abbr, acronym, address, big, cite, code,
del, dfn, em, font, img, ins, kbd, q, s, samp,
small, strike, strong, sub, sup, tt, var,
b, u, i, center,
dl, dt, dd, ol, ul, li,
fieldset, form, label, legend,
table, caption, tbody, tfoot, thead, tr, th, td {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
	border: 0;
	outline: 0;
	font-size: 100%;
	vertical-align: baseline;
	background: transparent;
}
body {
	line-height: 1;
}
ol, ul {
	list-style: none;
}
blockquote, q {
	quotes: none;
}
blockquote:before, blockquote:after,
q:before, q:after {
	content: '';
	content: none;
}

/* remember to define focus styles! */
:focus {
	outline: 0;
}

/* remember to highlight inserts somehow! */
ins {
	text-decoration: none;
}
del {
	text-decoration: line-through;
}

/* tables still need 'cellspacing="0"' in the markup */
table {
	border-collapse: collapse;
	border-spacing: 0;
}
/* @END GLOBAL RESET */

/*---------------------*/

/* @START STRUCTURE */
#pageWrapper {
	position:relative;
	width:100%;
}

#page {
	height:auto;
	margin:0 auto auto auto;
	position:relative;
	width:1000px;
}

	/* @START HEADER */
	#header {
		height:165px;
		margin:0;
		position:absolute;
		top: 0;
		width:1000px;
	}
	
		#logo {
			height:165px;
			left:0;
			margin:0;
			position:absolute;
			top:0;
			width:400px;
		}
		
		#search {
			height:35px;
			margin:0;
			position:absolute;
			right:0;
			top:130px;
			width:300px;
		}
		
		#toplinks {
			height:35px;
			margin:0;
			position:absolute;
			right:0;
			top:0;
			width:250px;
		}
	/* @END HEADER */
	
	/* @START PRIMARY NAV */
	#primaryNavContainer {
		background:#000;
		height:35px;
		margin:0;
		position:absolute;
		top:165px;
		width:1000px;
	}
	
	/* @END PRIMARY NAV */
	
	/* @START CONTENT */
	#content {
		background:#AAA;
		border:#000 solid 1px;
		height:498px;
		margin:0;
		padding:0;
		position:absolute;
		top:200px;
		width:998px;
	}
	
		#left {
			border-left:#AAA solid 1px;
			height:498px;
			left:0;
			padding:10px;
			position:absolute;
			top:0;
			width:244px;
		}
		
		#right {
			height:498px;
			margin:0px;
			position:absolute;
			right:0;
			top:0;
			width:754px;
		}
		
			#main {
				height:478px;
				left:10px;
				margin:10px;
				position:absolute;
				top:10px;
				width:734px;
			}
	/* @END CONTENT */
	
	/* @START FOOTER */
	#footer {
		height:285px;
		margin-top:10px;
		padding:0;
		postion:absolute;
		top:700px;
		width:1000px;
	}
	
		#footL1 {
			background-color:#000;
			height:250px;
			left:0;
			padding:5px;
			postion:absolute;
			width:240px;
		}
		
		#footL2 {
			background-color:#000;
			height:250px;
			left:255px;
			padding:5px;
			position:absolute;
			width:230px;
		}
		
		#footR2 {
			background-color:#000;
			height:250px;
			padding:5px;
			position:absolute;
			right:255px;
			width:230px;
		}
		
		#footR1 {
			background-color:#000;
			height:250px;
			padding:5px;
			position:absolute;
			right:0;
			width:240px;
		}
		
		#legal {
			bottom:0;
			height:25px;
			postion:absolute;
			width:1000px;
		}
	/* @END FOOTER */
	
/* @END STRUCTURE */

/*---------------------*/

/* @START FONT */
/* @END FONT */

Recommended Answers

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try using the recommended dimensions ems and %, 1000px will push offscreen in part windows or small devices, 100% will not

referring to the question asked, there will be conflict between the absolute positioning of the footer and the content, setting position from screen bottom may aleviate the issue,
setting fixed sizes for any screen element other than an image causes serious problems for potential users, I am keying this on a 1200*600 laptop screen while working(?) so the forced positioning will push the footer and part of the content offscreen and never be onscreen
current best practice would put your footer at the bottom and allow the content to scroll under it to become visible

most users are NOT using the same screen as the developer

#footer { height:285px; margin-top:10px; padding:0; postion:absolute; top:700px; 	width:1000px; } 
/* try */
#footer { height:285px; margin-top:10px; padding:0; postion:fixed; top: auto; bottom:0; 	width:100%; }

note:; zero is the only dimensionless number
line-height:1; must be dimensioned, as line-height:1em(100%,14px,10pt etc) or browsers may display in quirks mode = all bets are off

Tried the changes, didn't help. The issue with this although is it is not locating itself correctly. I wasn't aware you could use auto as a variable when you use absolute positioning.

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