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/css/CSS2/visuren/fixed-pos-stacking-001.xht
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS test: fixed positioning makes a stacking context</title> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/visuren.html#z-index" title="9.9.1 Specifying the stack level: the 'z-index' property" /> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS22/changes.html#s.9.9.1" title="C.1 Changes since the Recommendation of 7 June 2011" /> <meta name="assert" content="auto The stack level of the generated box in the current stacking context is 0. If the box has 'position: fixed' or if it is the root, it also establishes a new stacking context." /> <link rel="match" href="fixed-pos-stacking-001-ref.xht" /> <link rel="author" title="Bert Bos" href="mailto:bert@w3.org" /> <style type="text/css"> div {width: 5em; height: 2em} /* absolute with 'z-index: auto' does not create a stacking context */ #absolute {position: absolute; left: 1em; top: 3em; background: green} #absolute div {position: absolute} #absolute div div {position: absolute; z-index: -1; background: red} /* fixed with 'z-index: auto' *does* create a stacking context */ #fixed {position: fixed; left: 10em; top: 3em; background: red} #fixed div {position: absolute} #fixed div div {position: absolute; z-index: -1; background: green} </style> </head> <body> <p>There should be no red.</p> <div id="absolute"> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> <div id="fixed"> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>
/css/CSS2/visuren/fixed-pos-stacking-001-ref.xht
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <title>CSS Reference File</title> <link rel="author" title="Bert Bos" href="mailto:bert@w3.org" /> <style type="text/css"> div {width: 5em; height: 2em} /* absolute with 'z-index: auto' does not create a stacking context */ #absolute {position: absolute; left: 1em; top: 3em; background: green} #absolute div {position: absolute} #absolute div div {position: absolute; z-index: -1; background: green} /* fixed with 'z-index: auto' *does* create a stacking context */ #fixed {position: fixed; left: 10em; top: 3em; background: green} #fixed div {position: absolute} #fixed div div {position: absolute; z-index: -1; background: green} </style> </head> <body> <p>There should be no red.</p> <div id="absolute"> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> <div id="fixed"> <div> <div></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>