<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <html lang="en"> <head> <title>CSS Test: Stacking order: Floats and Blocks in Inlines</title> <link rel="author" title="Ian Hickson" href="mailto:ian@hixie.ch"> <link rel="alternate" href="http://www.hixie.ch/tests/adhoc/css/box/float/stacking/003.html" type="text/html"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#layers"> <link rel="help" href="http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#floats"> <link rel="match" href="reference/stack-floats-001-ref.htm"> <meta content="ahem" name="flags"> <style type="text/css"> /* outer block */ .container { width: 5em; height: 5em; border: solid; font: 20px/1 Ahem; background: red; display: block; } /* top and botom */ .float { width: 5em; height: 3em; margin: -5em 0 0 0; padding: 1em 0; background: red; float: left; } .inline { color: lime; display: inline; } /* middle */ .float .block { height: 3em; margin: 0; background: lime; display: block; } .inline .block { height: 3em; margin: 0; background: red; display: block; } </style> </head> <body> <p>Test passes if there is one single filled bright green square (with a black border) and no red.</p> <div class="container"> <div class="inline"> XXXXX <div class="block"></div> XXXXX </div> <div class="float"> <div class="block"></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>