Relative parent and abolute child
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.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" media="Screen"> * .parent { position: relative; padding: 20px; background: red; } * .relative2 { position: relative; z-index: 2; top: 20px; left: -30px; background: gold; } * .absolute { position: absolute; z-index: 1; top: 102px; left: 215px; background: gray; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="parent"> <span class="absolute">absolute</span> </div> </body> </html>