How to make footnotes appear at bottom of the footer's bar?

Question

How to make footnotes appear at bottom of the footer's bar?

Code:

\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

AJAX\footnote{Asynchronous JavaScript and XML permet de construire des applications Web et des sites web dynamiques interactifs sur le poste client.}

Made:

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

Set the length \footskip to a suitable value, e.g.

\setlength{\footskip}{17pt}

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}

\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}
\pagestyle{fancy}

\setlength{\footskip}{17pt}

\begin{document}

AJAX\footnote{Asynchronous JavaScript and XML permet de construire des applications Web et des sites web dynamiques interactifs sur le poste client.}

\end{document} 

Output:

---

EDIT

If you want your footnotes under the foot rule, they will overwrite the page number...

In this case I suggest to delete the line

\renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0.4pt}

and to redefine \footnoterule

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\footnoterule{%
  \kern23\p@
  \hrule\@width\linewidth
  \kern2.6\p@}
\makeatother 

MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{fancyhdr}
\usepackage{lipsum} % only for the example

\makeatletter
\renewcommand\footnoterule{%
  \kern23\p@
  \hrule\@width\linewidth
  \kern2.6\p@}
\makeatother

\pagestyle{fancy}

\begin{document}

AJAX\footnote{Asynchronous JavaScript and XML permet de construire des applications Web et des sites web dynamiques interactifs sur le poste client.}

\lipsum[1-8]

\end{document}