Suppose I have a document like
<style type="text/css">
div {
border:1px solid;
padding:15px;
}
#i_am_relatively_positioned{
background-color:#fcc;
margin:50px;
padding:50px;
position:relative;
}
#inner {
background-color:#cfc;
}
#i_want_to_be_absolute_to_body{
background-color:#ccf;
left:0;
position:absolute;
top:0;
}
</style>
<body>
<div id="i_am_relatively_positioned">
<div id="inner">inner</div>
<div id="i_want_to_be_absolute_to_body">absolute to body</div>
</div>
</body>
Is there a way to make #i_want_to_be_absolute_to_body positioned absolute with respect to the body element, rather than its immediate relative container?
I know I can just use some negative top and left but that seems kludgey - is this my only option?
Is it important, that the Element "i_want_to_be_absolute_to_body" is in the Container "i_am_relatively_positioned"?
If not then this solution:
You can use a bit of javascript to do this (I'm assuming you can't change the markup?).