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<title>CSS Test: Positioning, Overflow, and Clipping: Does 'overflow:auto' affect positioned elements that are relative to elements outside the overflow</title>
<link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:[email protected]"/>
<link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard 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/012.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;
height: 1em;
width: 20em;
background: red;
}
#inner {
overflow: auto; /* this rule should be irrelevant since the element is empty and thus has zero height */
}
#positioned {
position: absolute; /* relative to the outer div */
top: 0;
width: 20em;
background: white;
color: green;
}
</style>
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<p>Test passes if there is <strong>no red</strong>.</p>
<div id="outer">
<div id="inner">
<div id="positioned"> This text should be green. </div>
</div>
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