This may work for you. It works on IE6 and Firefox 2.0.0.17 for me. Give it a shot. I made the footer’s height very tall, just for effect. You would obviously change it to what you need. I hope this works for you.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<title>Liquid Footer</title>
<style type="text/css">
.footer {
background-color: #cdcdcd;
height: 180px;
text-align: center;
font-size:10px;
color:#CC0000;
font-family:Verdana;
padding-top: 10px;
width: 100%;
position:fixed;
left: 0px;
bottom: 0px;
}
</style>
<!--[if lte IE 6]>
<style type="text/css">
body {height:100%; overflow-y:auto;}
html {overflow-x:auto; overflow-y:hidden;}
* html .footer {position:absolute;}
</style>
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
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<div class="footer">-- This is your liquid footer --</div>
</body>
</html>