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 - Block-level elements position based on left-to-right direction and parent element is fixed</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="The containing block is formed by the padding edge for block-level elements.">
9 <style type="text/css">
10 div
11 {
12 border: solid black;
13 padding: 1in;
14 position: fixed;
15 width: 0;
16 }
17 span
18 {
19 display: block;
20 }
21 #span1
22 {
23 direction: ltr;
24 }
25 span span
26 {
27 background: blue;
28 height: 1in;
29 position: absolute;
30 width: 1in;
31 }
32 </style>
33 </head>
34 <body>
35 <p>Test passes if the blue box is in the lower-right corner of the black box.</p>
36 <div>
37 <span id="span1">
38 <span></span>
39 </span>
40 </div>
41 </body>
42 </html>