Alex Robinson wrote: > OK, there are quite a few of those (see QuirksMode for most of them - > http://www.quirksmode.org/bugreports/archives/opera/index.html), but my > head is really beginning to hurt over this one. > > I've spent quite a bit of time trying to see what I've done wrong, but > for the life of me I can't see what's up. > > http://www.fu2k.org/alex/css/cssjunk/operatopbottom > > Can Opera 7 and 8 really not get nested absolute positioning right? > > Googling doesn't turn up anything that looks remotely like this - which > leads me to believe that I am simply mad. Surely someone somewhere would > have spotted something this glaring? Yes, "Opera treats its height as 0", I think. If I add this #wrapper { ... padding-bottom: 200px; } , the green foo is offset 25% from the bottom of an erroneously assumed 200px height in Opera only. Your test reminds me of [1], but this case was only testing bottom:0;, without issues in Opera. Ingo [1] http://positioniseverything.net/abs_relbugs.html -- http://www.satzansatz.de/css.html ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL-REMOVED]] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/