<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>CSS Test: Absolutely positioned children of overflow: hidden</title> <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"> <link rel="reviewer" title="Gérard Talbot" href="http://www.gtalbot.org/BrowserBugsSection/css21testsuite/"> <!-- 2012-09-14 --> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/box/absolute/overflow/006.html" type="text/html"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visufx.html#overflow-clipping"> <link rel="match" href="reference/abspos-overflow-006-ref.htm"> <style type="text/css"> html, body { margin: 0; border: 0; padding: 0; } .control { margin: 5em 0 0 5em; background: red; color: yellow; width: 5em; height: 5em; } .overflow { overflow: hidden; width: 8em; height: 8em; } .positioned { position: absolute; top: 5em; left: 5em; background: green; color: white; width: 5em; height: 5em; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="control">FAIL</div> <div class="overflow"> <div class="positioned">PASS</div> </div> </body> </html>