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    <p>I'm trying to understand css, so I tried my best to make my experimental code below as generic as possible. </p> <p>I have a simple page, with two boxes, I wanted one of the boxes to be positioned a certain way which according to <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10082567/why-does-setting-the-right-css-attribute-push-an-element-to-the-left">Why does setting the `right` CSS attribute push an element to the left?</a> requires me to set its position like so <code>position:absolute</code> However, I now want to add some divs which fall below my absolute div, furthermore I would like the parent div to expand to fit the size of the child divs.</p> <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"&gt; &lt;html&gt; &lt;head&gt; &lt;style type="text/css"&gt; #outer { position : relative; background-color : green; width : 500px; height : 500px; /* overflow : hidden; */ /* I know from working with floating elements inside divs that this works * to cause parent divs to exand out around floating children, but this * does not do the same thing here, it lops off the bottom of the child divs * if I un-comment the preceding line! */ } #inner { position : absolute; background-color : blue; height : 400px; width : 400px; top : 10px; right : 20px; } #top_object { position : absolute; top : 450px; } .object { position : relative; width : 450px; height : 200px; background-color : yellow; margin-bottom : 25px; } /* The followsing was suggested by: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1709442/make-divs-height-expand-with-its-content But has no effect! */ .clear { clear : both; } &lt;/style&gt; &lt;/head&gt; &lt;body&gt; &lt;div id="outer"&gt; &lt;div id="inner"&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div id="top_object" class="object"&gt; Top Object &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="object"&gt; Second Object &lt;/div&gt; &lt;div class="clear"&gt;&lt;/div&gt; &lt;/div&gt; &lt;/body&gt; &lt;/html&gt; </code></pre> <p>I would like to have my first div with class object and id top_object positioned at an absolute distance from the top like it appears. However, I would then like further object divs to flow below top object. In other words I want to use top_object to define an absolute position for the first instance of div with class object and then have the following divs with class object naturally flow down the page, with a 25px margin as set in <code>margin:25px;</code> of <code>.object</code>, following top_object without the need to set each object's <code>top:XXXpx;</code> attribute separately. </p> <p>My first question is why does my second object appear above my first object, and how can I cause <code>relative</code> positioned objects to flow below an <code>absolute</code> positioned object?</p> <p>Second how do I get background div to expand and around the children divs when floating divs are not used?</p> <p>Furthermore, I am working to understand what is happening, although a direct answer to my question would be appreciated I would like to hear an explanation as to why what I am doing is wrong, and why any solution would fix it. I want to understand the logic behind css, not so much to see a specific code snippet which fixes the issue, although that would be nice too!</p>
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    1. COSince this is not a programming question, it is probably better asked over at [http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/](http://webmasters.stackexchange.com/)
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    2. COI would challenge you to rethink your approach. Absolute positioning is not necessary nearly as often as you might think. For example, with `#top_object`, why don't you make it relative, with a margin-top of 450px? And why do you need to make inner positioned absolutely? Why can't it be, for example, `float: right;`, but positioned relatively?
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    3. COok, i tried that but it moves everything down by 450px. and using float : right with relative positioning but pushes everything down by 450px.
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