Sent by lon.kraemer on 7 July 2002 11:11
> Simon Hill spoo'd forth:
> > On Sun, 2002-07-07 at 23:44, Stuart Langridge wrote:
> >>But according to the spec, "generated boxes act as containing blocks
for
> >>descendant boxes", so surely the main div should be the containing
block
> >>for the "abs" div? Have I misunderstood completely?
> >>
> > CSS2 10.1: # If the element has 'position: absolute', the containing
block
> > is established by the nearest ancestor with a 'position' other than
> > 'static'
>
> Ah. Yes. Thanks, all, for pointing out that I should read the *whole*
spec
> :-)
>
> sil
Nonetheless, know that browser support is way wonky. You might want to
read this before implementing this spec:
http://users.rraz.net/mc_on_the_rocks/testpage/abs_relbugs.html
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Lon Kraemer
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