<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html> <head> <title>CSS Test: Absolutely positioned non-replaced elements with left, width, right and margin-left not auto</title> <link rel="author" title="Microsoft" href="http://www.microsoft.com/"> <link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/"> <!-- 2012-08-31 --> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visudet.html#abs-non-replaced-width"> <meta name="flags" content="ahem"> <meta name="assert" content="If 'left', 'width', 'right' and 'margin-left' are all not 'auto' and 'margin-right' is 'auto', then solve the equation for 'margin-right'."> <style type="text/css"> #containingblock { border: solid black; direction: rtl; height: 200px; position: relative; width: 300px; } div div { /* left + margin-left + border-left-width + padding-left + width + padding-right + border-right-width + margin-right + right = width of containing block */ /* 100px + 100px + 0 + 0 + 100px + 0 + 0 + solve + 100px = 300px */ background: red; color: blue; font: 100px/1 Ahem; left: 100px; margin-left: 100px; margin-right: auto; /* value is solved to -100px */ position: absolute; right: 100px; width: 100px; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if a filled blue square is in the <strong>upper-right corner</strong> of the black rectangle and there is <strong>no red</strong>.</p> <div id="containingblock"> <div>X</div> </div> </body> </html>