I'm creating a skin. I have my footer structured like this: (I've removed runat server from the panes because I think this forum will strip the code)

I want the entire footer area to be this dark brown/black color; So I thought if I did the CSS like this it would accomplish the task.

footer{background:#202020;}

The background color only shows up if I hard code text into the footer, which defeats the purpose. As soon as I drop the html module into the panes, the color background no longer works. So I gave my panes a class of footer-color and did this:

.footer-color{background:#202020;}

It colors the panes, but because the content is not the same height for all panes, the color is uneven.

You can see what I'm talking about here: http://skeeterz71.com/footer.jpg

Any suggestions on how to color the background of the entire footer and not just the panes?

Thanks