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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>