Question

I have a div within a div. I want one to extend out of the shell div so it resembles a tab. I thought just using absolute positioning with a negative value would push it out of the parent div. That doesn’t seem to work. Is there a CSS work-around?

Example
http://jsfiddle.net/W3CyT/

Answer 1

http://jsfiddle.net/iambriansreed/W3CyT/4/

CSS

#sideWall {
    height:100px;
    width:100px;
    position:absolute;
    top: 10;
    left: 10;
    background: black;
    margin-top: 60px; /* give room for tab */
}

.showSideWall {
    height: 60px;
    width: 30px;
    position: absolute;
    top: -60px; /* move tab above container */
    right: 0;
    background: red;
}