Why is an absolutely positioned element placed by its sibling instead of at the top corner of the page?

Question

I don\'t understand why my absolutely positioned element appears after my child_static div. I always thought that absolutely positioned elements are taken out of th

Answer 1

You forgot to set from which sides your DIV is positioned.

Something like:

top: 0;
left: 0;

http://jsfiddle.net/Paf_Sebastien/uqprmkwo/

(I changed the 2nd DIV dimensions so you can see both.)