280459 - position absolute does not applied to blocks generated by :before and :after

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 238072

(Core :: Layout: Positioned, defect)

Description

[Vitaly Harisov]

User-Agent:       Opera/7.51 (Windows NT 5.2; U)  [en]
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.2; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

See sample (http://vitaly.harisov.name/example/corners.html), it is 
all-sufficient.

Another sample: http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/wrongWithIE/eightpointbox.html

Note, that this code works great in Opera 7.20+ (tested in op7.20 and op7.51).

Opera:   http://vitaly.harisov.name/example/corners-op75.png
Firefox: http://vitaly.harisov.name/example/corners-ff10.png


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Actual Results:  
Corner images placed in wrong position.

Expected Results:  
Corner images placed in right position, each image must be placed over border.

Comment 1

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

In CSS2 "position" does not apply to generated content.  This got changed in
CSS2.1, but we haven't had time to implement all the changes from that
specification yet...

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 238072 ***