Footer unclear (Simple theme)

[henkvantijen]

My client wants a common black footer under all pagesof the site.
I added to T&P > Custom CSS
.footer{
background: black;
}
.footer p {color: white;}

This works, I get a black area under every page.
To add content to the footer, I added text to T&P > Custom HTML > Footer , but this text appears below the black footer, so it's more of a below-footer?

[ I found out the actual content of the footer can be set at Theme > Footer , this for other newbies who might be reading this]

[bjazmoore]

So did you answer your own question? Is it working now?