Question

I’m currently trying to position some DIVs in a specific order using z-index but they don’t seem to be budging ive set it up in jsfiddle for you to have a look at to see if you can see any issues.

Here’s the order I’d like it to be from back to front:

RED
GREEN
BLUE
YELLOW

http://jsfiddle.net/BUWaZ/4/

HTML

<div id="green">

   <div id="yellow">
   </div>

   <div id="red">
   </div>

</div>

<div id="blue">
</div>

CSS

#green{
   background-color:green;
   height:100px;
   width:100%;
   position:fixed;
   top:0;
}

#red {
   margin:-85px auto 0;
   width:406px;
   height:60px;
   background-color:red;
z-index:-99999;   
}

#blue{
   margin:350px auto 0;
   width:60px;
   height:465px;
   z-index:99999;
   background-color:blue;
}

#yellow {
   margin:0px auto 0;
   width:170px;
   height:170px;
   background-color:yellow;
   z-index:99999;   
}

Answer 1

You have to set a position in order for z-index to work. Add position relative to the ones that don’t have it. Also don’t have the same z-index for blue and yellow or it won’t know which one to pick.

http://jsfiddle.net/SzxT2/1/

#green{
    background-color:green;
    height:100px;
    width:100%;
    position:fixed;
    top:0;
}

#red {
    margin:-85px auto 0;
    width:406px;
    height:60px;
    background-color:red;
z-index:-99999;    
    position:relative;
}

#blue{
    margin:350px auto 0;
    width:60px;
    height:465px;
    z-index:99998;
    background-color:blue;
    position:relative;
}

#yellow {
    margin:0px auto 0;
    width:170px;
    height:170px;
    background-color:yellow;
    z-index:99999;   
    position:relative;
}