Parent position: relative, child position fixed or absolute
<!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">
.grandContainer {
width: 800px;
height: 800px;
background: red;
position: relative;
}
#absolute {
position: absolute;
width: 140px;
height: auto;
background: gold;
}
#fixed {
position: fixed;
height: 50px;
margin-top: 10px;
width: auto;
margin-left: 10px;
background: yellow;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>
<div class="grandContainer">
<span id="absolute" class="border">Absolute</span>
<p> outside span<span id="fixed" class="border">Fixed</span></p>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
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