<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.1//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml11/DTD/xhtml11.dtd"> <html lang="en" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Test: Absolute Positioning: max-width</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/width/005-demo.html" type="text/html"/> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-width" /> <link rel="match" href="abspos-width-005-ref.xht" /> <style type="text/css"> .relative { position: relative; border: fuchsia thin solid; padding: 1em; width: 10em; height: 5em; } .absolute { position: absolute; border: aqua thin solid; padding: 1em; max-width: 3em; } </style> </head> <body> <p>The blue rectangle should be well within the pink rectangle, but its text should overflow out of both rectangles.</p> <div class="relative"> <div class="absolute"> overflowyflowyflowyflowyflowyflowyflowyflowy </div> </div> </body> </html>