How can place an element at the bottom of another element using CSS? -

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look @ this: http://jsfiddle.net/unimous/88uqj/

<div id="d1">     <div id="d2"> </div> </div>  #d1 {     height: 3000px;     background-color: red; }  #d2 {     background-color: green;     height: 40px;     width: 40px;     position: absolute;     bottom: 0px; } 

i want make div d2 appear @ bottom of d1, not bottom of screen.

why position: absolute doesn't work here?

add position:relative d1 div

jsfiddle example

absolutely positioned elements positioned respect closest positioned ancestor.