Reduce Confluence footer height and customization on Dashboard (Documentation theme)

Question

Hello,

I've been trying for hours to customize the footer on my Dashboard without much success. I can hide elements using CSS or Custom HTML but its height remains extremely huge.

Visit http://support.randomcontrol.com to see what I mean

I customized the Dashboard and this might be the cause but nonetheless I'm stuck with a gigantic footer so far.

I would also like to edit the content of the footer to add my own company's credit (keeping the Atlassian stuff as I know it's against the license agreement to remove it). I know how to append an element using custom HTML but if there are better or other methods I'm all ears.

Thank you very much in advance for your help

Erwann Loison · Answer

Hello Steven, If only it was that simple... The only thing I found that could force the footer to a smaller size is to write that script at the end of BODY: PS: You're setting margin twice to different values in your CSS.

Steven F Behnke · Answer

What's the issue? You should override the following CSS properties because they are setting the width –

#footer .footer-body {
    margin: 20px 0;
    padding: 0 10px 21px 10px;
    min-height: 44px;
    margin: 14px 0;
}

To more succinctly edit these files (rather than overriding or appending), check this out – https://confluence.atlassian.com/confkb/how-to-edit-the-footer-in-confluence-163415355.html