z-index controls the stacking order of positioned elements.
<!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" xml:lang="en"> <head> <title>Using z-index</title> <style type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> p {border-width: thin;border-style: solid; height: 100px; width: 100px;text-align: center} </style> </head> <body> <p style="background-color: red; position: relative; left: 0;z-index: 10"> Container 1 </p> <p style="background-color: white; position: relative; top: -100px; left: 50px;z-index: 5"> Container 2 </p> <p style="background-color: blue; position: relative; top: -200px; left: 100px;z-index: 0"> Container 3 </p> </body> </html>