Top Aligned Absolute block

  

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
    <title></title>
<style type="text/css" title="text/css">
* .grandContainer {
  position: relative;
  height: 300px;
  width: 700px;
  border: 2px solid black;
  background: red;
}

* .parent {
  margin: 10px;
  padding: 10px;
  padding-top: 0;
  border: 1px solid black;
  background: purple;
}

* .ex {
  padding: 5px;
  border: 5px solid black;
  width: 120px;
  text-align: center;
  position: relative;
}

* .ex span {
  left: 0;
  width: 130px;
  height: auto;
}

#myAbsolute {
  height: 100px;
  top: 0;
  margin-top: 0;
  bottom: auto;
  margin-bottom: auto;
  position: absolute;
  margin-left: 200px;
  background-color: gold;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
  <div class="grandContainer">Positioned Grandparent 
    <div class="parent">Non-positioned Parent 
      <span id="myAbsolute" class="ex"><span>Sized Absolute</span></span> 
    </div>
  </div> 
</body>
</html>

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