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: Positioning, Overflow, and Clipping: Does 'overflow:auto' affect positioned elements that are relative to elements outside the overflow</title>
5 <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch">
6 <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/box/absolute/overflow/012.html" type="text/html">
7 <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#overflow-clipping">
8 <style type="text/css">
9 #outer {
10 position: relative;
11 height: 1em;
12 width: 20em;
13 background: red;
14 }
15 #inner {
16 overflow: auto; /* this rule should be irrelevant since the element is empty and thus has zero height */
17 }
18 #positioned {
19 position: absolute; /* relative to the outer div */
20 top: 0;
21 width: 20em;
22 background: white;
23 color: green;
24 }
25 </style>
26 </head>
27 <body>
28 <p>There should be no red below.</p>
29 <div id="outer">
30 <div id="inner">
31 <div id="positioned"> This text should be green. </div>
32 </div>
33 </div>
34 </body>
35 </html>