Positioning An Element That Can Overflow Outside The Viewport Without Triggering A Scrollbar?

My content and body background colors are different and I would like to have a gradient to fade from one to the other. This effect is only necessary when the content is smaller tha

Solution 1:

You could position the footer as being fixed:

<div class="footer" style="position: fixed">
</div>

(or change the CSS accordingly).

Here's a fiddle for this: http://jsfiddle.net/kEXzs/17/