1 <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
2 <html>
3 <head>
4 <title>CSS Test: Containing Blocks - Inline-level elements position based on left-to-right direction and parent element is absolute</title>
5 <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/">
6 <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#containing-block-details">
7 <meta name="flags" content="">
8 <meta name="assert" content="If the ancestor is inline-level, positioned absolute, and direction is left-to-right, the top/left of the containing block determines the top/left padding edges of the first box generated by the ancestor.">
9 <style type="text/css">
10 div
11 {
12 border: solid black;
13 padding: 1in;
14 position: absolute;
15 width: 0;
16 }
17 #span1
18 {
19 direction: ltr;
20 }
21 span span
22 {
23 background: blue;
24 height: 1in;
25 position: absolute;
26 width: 1in;
27 }
28 </style>
29 </head>
30 <body>
31 <p>Test passes if the blue box is in the lower-right corner of the black box.</p>
32 <div>
33 <span id="span1">
34 <span></span>
35 </span>
36 </div>
37 </body>
38 </html>