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<h4 id="abs-non-replaced-width">Absolutely positioned, non-replaced elements</h4>
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- <p>For the purposes of this section and the next, the term <span id="static-position"><span class="index">"static position"</span></span>
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- (of an element) refers, roughly,
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- to the position an element would have had in the normal flow. More
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- precisely:
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+ <p>In this section and the next, the term <span id="static-position">
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+ <span class="index">"static position"</span></span> (of an element)
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+ refers roughly to where an [=absolutely positioned element=] would
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+ appear in the normal flow if it was statically positioned.
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+ More precisely:
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</p>
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<ul>
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<li>The <dfn>static-position containing block</dfn> is the containing
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block of a hypothetical box that would have been the first box of the
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- element if its specified 'position' value had been ''static''
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+ [=absolutely positioned element=] if its specified 'position' value had been ''static''
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and its specified 'float' had been ''float/none''. (Note that due to the rules
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in <a href="#dis-pos-flo">section 9.7</a> this
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hypothetical calculation might require also assuming a different
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computed value for 'display'.)
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</li>
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<li>The static position for 'left' is the distance from the left edge
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of the containing block to the left margin edge of a hypothetical box
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- that would have been the first box of the element if its 'position' property had been ''static''
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- and 'float' had been ''float/none''. The
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- value is negative if the hypothetical
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- box is to the left of the containing block.
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+ that would have been the first box of the [=absolutely positioned element=]
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+ if its 'position' property had been ''static'' and 'float' had been ''float/none''.
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+ The value is negative if the hypothetical box is to the left of the containing block.
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</li>
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<li>The static position for 'right' is the distance from the right
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edge of the containing block to the right margin edge of the same
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instead of the viewport, and all scrollable boxes should be assumed to
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be scrolled to their origin.
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- <p>The constraint that determines the used values for these
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- elements is :</p>
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+ <p>For [=absolutely positioned element=], the used values of the horizontal
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+ dimensions must satisfy this constraint :</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>'left' + 'margin-left' + 'border-left-width' + 'padding-left' + 'width'
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<h4 id="abs-non-replaced-height">Absolutely positioned, non-replaced elements</h4>
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- <p>For the purposes of this section and the next, the term "static
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- position" (of an element) refers, roughly, to the position an element
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- would have had in the normal flow . More precisely, the static position
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+ <p>In this section and the next, the term "static position" (of an element)
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+ refers roughly to where an [=absolutely positioned element=] would appear in the
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+ normal flow if it was statically positioned . More precisely, the static position
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for 'top' is the distance from the top edge of the containing block to
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- the top margin edge of a hypothetical box that would have been the
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- first box of the element if its specified 'position' value had been ''static''
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- and its specified 'float' had been
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- ''float/none'' and its specified 'clear'
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- had been ''clear/none''. (Note that due to the rules
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+ the top margin edge of a hypothetical box that would have been the first box of
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+ the absolutely positioned element if its specified 'position'
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+ value had been ''static'' and its specified 'float' had been ''float/none''
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+ and its specified 'clear' had been ''clear/none''. (Note that due to the rules
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in <a href="#dis-pos-flo">section 9.7</a> this might
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require also assuming a different computed value for 'display'.)
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The value is negative if the hypothetical box is above the containing
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block of fixed positioned elements is the initial containing block
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instead of the viewport.
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- <p>For absolutely positioned elements, the used values of the vertical
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- dimensions must satisfy this constraint:</p>
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+ <p>For [= absolutely positioned element|absolutely positioned elements=],
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+ the used values of the vertical dimensions must satisfy this constraint:</p>
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<blockquote>
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<p>'top' + 'margin-top' + 'border-top-width' + 'padding-top' + 'height'
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<h4 id="abs-replaced-height">Absolutely positioned, replaced elements</h4>
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<p>This situation is similar to the previous one, except that the
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- element has an <a href="#intrinsic">intrinsic</a> height. The
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- sequence of substitutions is now:
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+ [=absolutely positioned element=] has an <a href="#intrinsic">intrinsic</a> height.
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+ The sequence of substitutions is now:
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</p>
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<ol>
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