<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Test: Positioning, Overflow, and Stacking: 'overflow:auto' as an in-flow sibling of a positioned element</title> <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"/> <link rel="reviewer" title="GĂ©rard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/" /> <!-- 2012-09-14 --> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/box/absolute/overflow/011.html" type="text/html"/> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#overflow-clipping" /> <link rel="match" href="abspos-overflow-011-ref.xht" /> <style type="text/css"> #outer { position: relative; } #inner { position: absolute; /* positioned relative to the containing block of the div that follows it */ top: 0; background: white; color: green; width: 20em; } #content { overflow: auto; /* this should have no effect on the stacking context calculations or painting order */ background: red; color: yellow; width: 20em; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if there is <strong>no red</strong>.</p> <div id="outer"> <div id="inner"> This text should be green. </div> <div id="content"> FAIL </div> </div> </body> </html>