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CSS CSS Layout Basics Positioning Page Content How Absolute Positioning Works

William Keely
William Keely
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Posted by William Keely
William Keely
7,295 Points

Positioning Context?

Why is the positioning context the viewport? Is it absolute referencing always in relation tot he viewport? This seems to glossed over.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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Steven Parker
Steven Parker
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The viewport is the default positioning context.

You can create another positioning context just by setting a parent or ancestor element's position to "relative". Then the offsets of the absolutely positioned element will be based on the other element and not the viewport.

Here's a Treehouse blog post with some addition explanation and illustrations.

William Keely
William Keely
7,295 Points
William Keely
William Keely
7,295 Points

Thank you. Also Guil explained this more in the next video, so I have a good grasp of it now