CSS for abs-6

  <script>
     html  { margin: 0; padding: 0; background-color: red; }  # 0,0,0,1
     body  { margin: 5px; background-color: gray; }  # 0,0,0,1
     #container  { position: relative; background-color: yellow; border: 2px solid lightgreen; }  # 0,1,0,0
     .abs  { position: absolute; background-color: transparent; border: 2px black dashed; margin: 0; padding: 0; }  # 0,0,1,0
     p  { border: 1px grey dotted; }  # 0,0,0,1
  </script>
  

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<h3 style="background-color: blue;">Absolute Positioning</h3>
<div id="container" style="z-index: 0;"> <!-- container -->
 <div class="abs" style="width: 250px"> <!-- absolute 1 -->
				<p style="background: green;">
				This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned
div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container]
which will give us something
				to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.
				</p>
				<p style="background: brown;">
				This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned
div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container]
which will give us something
				to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.
				</p>
 </div> <!-- end of absolute 1 -->
 <div class="abs" style="left: 300px"> <!-- absolute 2 -->
				<p style="background: yellow;">
				This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned
div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container]
which will give us something
				to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.
				</p>
				<p style="background: lightgreen;">
				This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned
div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container]
which will give us something
				to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.
				</p>
 </div> <!-- end of absolute 2 -->
</div> <!-- end of container -->
<div style="position:relative; z-index:100;"> <!-- footer -->
<p>Notice how the absolutely positioned block is not part of the
document flow and does not create any vertical size in the containing
postition:relative block.
</p>
</div> <!-- end of footer -->
  

Absolute Positioning

This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container] which will give us something to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.

This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container] which will give us something to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.

This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container] which will give us something to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.

This is statically positioned paragraph within an absolutely positioned div which is within a relatively positioned div [acting as a container] which will give us something to look at as we start to explore absolute positioning.

Notice how the absolutely positioned block is not part of the document flow and does not create any vertical size in the containing postition:relative block.