<!DOCTYPE html> <html><head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><title>CSS Test: Absolutely positioned children of flex container with CSS align</title> <meta charset="utf-8"> <link rel="help" href="https://drafts.csswg.org/css-flexbox/#abspos-items"> <link rel="help" href="https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1386654"> <link rel="match" href="https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/raw-file/6538de3b6137/layout/reftests/w3c-css/submitted/flexbox/position-absolute-containing-block-002-ref.html"> <link rel="author" title="Emilio Cobos Álvarez" href="mailto:emilio@crisal.io"> <style> .parent { position: fixed; top: 0; left: 0; display: flex; align-items: center; justify-content: center; width: 180px; height: 180px; /* Expand the background area to 200px, without touching the content-box, which is what flex absolute children should be aligned relative to. */ border-top: 5px solid yellow; padding-top: 15px; border-left: 5px solid yellow; padding-left: 15px; background: yellow; } .child { position: absolute; width: 100px; height: 100px; background: green; } </style> </head><body><div class="parent"><div class="child"></div></div> </body></html>