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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	If you want to absolutely position an element relative to its parent, rather than relative to the document, what you have to do is set 'position: relative' on the [i]parent[/i] and then 'position: absolute' on the child you want to position. Note: this isn't supported by NS4 (which will always position relative to the document), and IE5 has a few quirks if you try to absolutely position to a parent using 'right:' or 'bottom:' properties rather than 'top:' or 'left:'. This seems counterintuitive, but it's because the CSS spec states that 'position: absolute' is relative to the nearest [b]positioned[/b] parent element. All elements are unpositioned by default, so this usually means the nearest positioned element is the document: hence you have to override this with 'position: relative' on the parent element. Loading...
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