Re: Do overlapping statically positioned elements "obscure" each other

On Thu, 16 Sep 1999, Ian Graham wrote:

> It might be nice if there were a way to bind the background and content
> together for rendering purposes, so that they could behave the way I want
> (how's that for hubris). Something like
> 
> background-depth: normal | element
> 
> where 'element' pops the background up to the depth one level below the
> element content.  On the other hand, the type of rendering behavior I
> suggested is produced using positioned elements (and controllably using
> z-index), and perhaps that is a better way to go about overlapping stuff.

Well, just saying

   position: relative; z-index: 0; 

...would achieve what you suggest, wouldn't it?

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Ian Hickson
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