Revolution Theme Footer Problem

I was having a fair amount of trouble keeping the footer from sliding below the pane of pages, posts, even the comment form, and (at least) I was unable to control it either with margins or padding. This is what fixed it for me (adding the bold parts):

<!– The main column ends –>
<div style=”clear:both;”>
<?php get_footer(); ?>
<br/><br>

Padding or Margins?

Looks like whereas Firefox has no problem distinguishing between padding and margin, IE does. Use margin instead of padding when having problems between IE and Firefox renditions of spaces between things.