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position:absolute only behaves that way relative to a positioned parent -- if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set, it keeps looking up the hierar
by blasdel 18y ago
position:absolute only behaves that way relative to a positioned parent -- if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set, it keeps looking up the hierarchy until it finds one that is (or is the root).
- pmjordan 18y agoWhile we're nit-picking: if the parent doesn't have the position attribute set isn't quite accurate: the containing block must not have static positioning (which it does by default), but one of absolute, relative or fixed.
- gord 18y agothats kind of my point - its not trivially obvious that "absolute" is not absolute. I know ... RTFM.. but then theres what browsers actually do as a mixin. Hence good examples of motifs that are reasonably portable are all the more valuable.