Boris Zbarsky wrote: > No. It should offset from the containing block, not the parent element. > For absolutely positioned content the containing block is the nearest > positioned ancestor or the document root if there are no positioned > ancestors. > > For some reason IE and opera seem to think that a <td> is a containing > block for positioned content.... it is not.
That would be true if left and top were set for the positioned element. In this example they are not set so they would default to "auto". So the positioned table should be placed as though it were static positioned,and thus be offset by the parent table. Is that correct? -- Terry
