Absolutely positioned element is positioned in context to the dimensions of the relatively positioned container.

 

<!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' xml:lang='en'>
    <head>
        <title>Relative Positioning</title>
        <style rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

div {
    background: yellow;
    border: 1px solid black;
    margin: 0 20px;
}
div#relative {
    position: relative;
    height: 200px;
}

p#bottom-right {
    margin: 0;
    background: gold;
    border: 1px solid crimson;
    height: 50px;
    width: 200px;
    position: absolute;
    bottom: 5px;
    right: 5px;
}
        </style>
    </head>
    <body>
        <div id='relative'>
            <p id='bottom-right'>
               this is a test. this is a test. 
            </p>
         </div>

     </body>
</html>

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Absolutely positioned element is positioned in context to the dimensions of the relatively positioned container. : position absolute « Layout « HTML / CSS

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