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Absolutely positioned Elements are positioned relative to the browser's viewport.


 

<!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>Absolute Positioning</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>
body {
    background: yellowgreen;
}
div {
    position: absolute;
    background: yellow;
    padding: 5px;
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
}
div#top-left {
    top: 0;
    left: 0;
    border-right: 1px solid black;
    border-bottom: 1px solid black;
    background: pink;
}
        
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
    <div id='top-left'>
       Top, Left
    </div>
  </body>
</html>