Absolute positioning calculating against body

[Ham Pastrami]

Since my HTML is failing to render properly on either FF2 or IE6, I wonder
if my understanding of the CSS is faulty. What I want is to place a little
box at the top right corner of my content area, the tricky part being that
the content area is not the body itself but rather a div. My understanding
of CSS is that 'position: absolute' is relative to the containing block
(9.3.1), which should be the div. However, both FF and IE offset against the
body rather than the containing block. So are the browsers not compliant or
is my CSS wrong?

<style>
..littlebox { position: absolute; right: 1in }
..bigbox { width: 8.5in; height: 11in }
</style>

<div class="bigbox">
<div class="littlebox">
<!-- Expecting this to be offset from bigbox, but it offsets against
body -->
</div>
</div>

[rf]

"Ham Pastrami" <no****@dot.comwrote in message
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Since my HTML is failing to render properly on either FF2 or IE6, I wonder
if my understanding of the CSS is faulty. What I want is to place a little
box at the top right corner of my content area, the tricky part being that
the content area is not the body itself but rather a div. My understanding
of CSS is that 'position: absolute' is relative to the containing block

The containing block is not the parent. It is the nearest ancestor that has
a position of other than static.
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.h...-block-details

..bigbox {... postion: relative; }

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Richard.

[dorayme]

In article <6i*****************@nlpi070.nbdc.sbc.com>,
"Ham Pastrami" <no****@dot.comwrote:

btw, inches are not a good idea from screen viewing. But I really
came back to tell you I know a terrific joke about pastrami.

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dorayme