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Hi Taco,
 
Lifted straight from Douglas Bowman's "Making the Absolute, Relative"
http://www.stopdesign.com/also/articles/absolute/
 
<quote>
an absolute-positioned element is positioned according to its containing block"
</quote>
 
<quote>
If an absolute-positioned element resides within no other containing block, (when no ancestor elements are positioned) it is placed relative to the page boundaries (called the initial containing block)
</quote>
 
hth,
Ben
-----Original Message-----
I believe the left 100px is still calculated from the browser and not from where the div is located, should it not calculate the absolute position where ever the div is located?
 

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