On May 4, 2009, at 10:59 PM, Alan Gresley wrote: > <http://css-class.com/test/bugs/ie/margin-abpos-no-top-offset.htm> > > > Question for the list. Where should the absolutely positioned element > (with no top offset) be placed in this test case? > > a. Firefox and Safari shows the a.p. element (removed from flow) over > the element with a lime background. > b. IE 6~7 and Opera shows the a.p. element in the top right corner of > the page. > > > I would think that Firefox and Safari are showing correctly since the > margin-top of div#test collapses into the margin-top of body and html > which are the initial containing block (root element).
I tend to agree here. The top-margin on #tests collapses through (add a background-colour to the root element to visualise) Then apply 10.6.4. (but maybe the question should be addressed to www-style. It is an edge case) A related discussion: <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=401647> Philippe --- Philippe Wittenbergh http://l-c-n.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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/
