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Float left in a relative positioned container


 

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>
<style type="text/css">
.container {
  border: 1px dotted #BAB9B8;
  width: 800px;
  overflow: hidden;
  margin-bottom: 20px;
}

.box {
  background: #FFFCC4;
  border: 1px dotted #BAB9B8;
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  margin: 20px;
  position: relative;
}

.floatLeft {
  float: left;
}
.text {
  position: absolute;
  left: 0;
  top: 0;
}

</style>
</head>

<body>

<div class="container">
<div class="floatLeft box"><em class="text">Box 1</em></div>
<div class="box"><em class="text">Box 2</em></div>
<div class="box"><em class="text">Box 3</em></div>
</div>
</body>
</html>