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: Absolutely positioned elements establishes a new containing block for normal flow children</title>
5 <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/">
6 <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#absolute-positioning">
7 <meta name="flags" content="">
8 <meta name="assert" content="An absolutely positioned box establishes a new containing block for normal flow children.">
9 <style type="text/css">
10 #div1
11 {
12 height: 2in;
13 position: relative;
14 width: 2in;
15 }
16 div div
17 {
18 height: 1in;
19 width: 1in;
20 }
21 #div2
22 {
23 background: blue;
24 left: 1in;
25 height: 2in;
26 position: absolute;
27 }
28 #div3
29 {
30 background: orange;
31 }
32 </style>
33 </head>
34 <body>
35 <p>Test passes if the blue box is directly below the orange box.</p>
36 <div id="div1">
37 <div id="div2">
38 <div id="div3"></div>
39 </div>
40 </div>
41 </body>
42 </html>