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 absolutely positioned 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 absolutely positioned 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: orange;
24 left: 1in;
25 position: absolute;
26 }
27 #div3
28 {
29 background: blue;
30 position: relative;
31 top: 1in;
32 }
33 </style>
34 </head>
35 <body>
36 <p>Test passes if the blue box is directly below the orange box.</p>
37 <div id="div1">
38 <div id="div2">
39 <div id="div3"></div>
40 </div>
41 </div>
42 </body>
43 </html>