Question

Let’s say I have a DIV that’s styled as a square, and it has squares (DIV) inside of it. I’d like the squares inside the main DIV to stack in the lower right. I can use float: right to to get them on the right edge, but how do I make them stack at the bottom rather than the top?

Answer 1

Should you not find a good CSS solution, jQuery can easily handle this:
Fiddle

$('.inner').each(function(i) {
    $this = $(this);
    var bottomPos = ($this.outerHeight())*i;
    $this.css('bottom', bottomPos);
});

HTML and CSS

<style type="text/css">
    #outer {
        width: 400px;
        height: 600px;
        background-color: #eee;
        position: relative;
    }
    .inner {
        width: 100px;
        height: 100px;
        background-color: #ccc;
        border: 1px solid #aaa;
        position: absolute;
        right: 0;
    }
</style>

<div id="outer">
    <div class="inner">One</div>
    <div class="inner">Two</div>
    <div class="inner">Three</div>
    <div class="inner">Four</div>
</div>