I have a problem with relative positioning, containing block, and percentages.
I have an absolutely positioned outer DIV, and a relatively positioned inner DIV. My goal is to shift the inner DIV halfway to the left and up, using percentages. See code below: <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> <html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"> <title>title</title> <style type="text/css"> body { margin: 50px; } div { border: 1px solid green; } div div { border: 1px dotted red; } </style> </head> <body> <div style="position: absolute;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -50%; left: -50%;"> Some multi-<br> line content </div> </div> </body> </html> My expectation is to see the text with the red border shifted both up and left from the green (outer) box. In standard browsers like Firefox and Opera I only get a shift sideways and not upwards, though in IE I get both directions. I have been trying to find support for the standard browsers' behaviour in the CSS spec, but have failed. Sections 9.3.2, 10.6.4 and 10.6.7 suggest, at least to me, that I should be getting the upwards shift with my layout. Can anybody point to something that explains this? Did I miss something in the spec or are both Firefox and Opera wrong (not likely) ? Best regards Mike ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d IE7 information -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/?page=IE7 List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/
