Thanks Philippe, your test case works for me. Your quote from the specification seemed to be related to the relatively positioned element itself. I use relative positioning just to create a containing block:
"If the element has 'position: absolute', the containing block is established by the nearest ancestor with a 'position' of 'absolute', 'relative' or 'fixed' ..." http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS2/visudet.html#containing-block-details Michal Cizmazia ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [cs...@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/