mar 17 2014 08:35 MiB <digital.disc...@gmail.com>:

> mar 17 2014 05:10 John <j...@coffeeonmars.com>:
> 
>> I think I'm getting closer to understand how to use this new (to me) method 
>> of positioning, but I don't get what it's relative to, such that Firefox 
>> renders it differently from Opera, Chrome and Safari..
> 
> Absolute positioning is relative to the nearest Positioning context. That is 
> the first parent — going inside out from the current element — that has a 
> "position". 
> 
> Just position:relative; is enough for the positioning context element. 
> Without a positioning context you are effectively positioning relative to the 
> body element. All of this is of course Elementary CSS Layout.


http://css-discuss.incutio.com/wiki/Absolute_Layouts

:-)
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