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I have a table cell, and I want a div within it to always be at the bottom left corner. The following works fine in IE and Safari, but Firefox is positioning the div absolutely on the page, not within the cell (code based on the solution solution here). I have tested both with and without the DTD, which put Firefox in Quirks mode and Standards mode, and neither worked properly. I'm stuck - any ideas?
<!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" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>
<title>Test</title>
<style type="text/css">
table { width:500px; }
th, td { vertical-align: top; border:1px solid black; position:relative; }
th { width:100px; }
.manage { text-align:right; position:absolute; bottom:0; right:0; }
</style>
</head>
<body >
<table>
<tr>
<th>Some info about the following thing and this is actually going to span a few lines</th>
<td><p>A short blurb</p><div class="manage">Edit | Delete</div></td>
</tr>
<tr>
<th>Some info about the following thing and this is actually going to span a few lines</th>
<td><p>A short blurb</p><div class="manage">Edit | Delete</div></td>
</tr>
</table>
</body>
</html>
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Set the position of div at the bottom of its container can be done using bottom, and position property. Set position value to absolute and bottom value to zero to placed a div at the bottom of container.
If position: absolute; or position: fixed; - the bottom property sets the bottom edge of an element to a unit above/below the bottom edge of its nearest positioned ancestor. If position: relative; - the bottom property makes the element's bottom edge to move above/below its normal position.
Just set element child to position: relative and than move it top: 100% (that's the 100% height of the parent) and stick to bottom of parent by transform: translateY(-100%) (that's -100% of the height of the child).
According to the W3C, position:relative has no effect on table cells:
"The effect of 'position:relative' on table-row-group, table-header-group, table-footer-group, table-row, table-column-group, table-column, table-cell, and table-caption elements is undefined."
The solution is to add an extra wrapping div to the table cell.
EDIT: This div requires a height:100% and position:relative; to be set.
<table>
<tr>
<td>
<div style="position:relative;height:100%;">
Normal inline content.
<div class="manage">your absolute-positioned content</div>
</div>
</td>
</tr>
</table>
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