How do I position one image on top of another in HTML?

Question

I\'m a beginner at rails programming, attempting to show many images on a page. Some images are to lay on top of others. To make it simple, say I want a blue square, with

Answer 1

You can absolutely position pseudo elements relative to their parent element.

This gives you two extra layers to play with for every element - so positioning one image on top of another becomes easy - with minimal and semantic markup (no empty divs etc).

markup:

css:

.overlap
{
    width: 100px;
    height: 100px;
    position: relative;
    background-color: blue;
}
.overlap:after
{
    content: '';
    position: absolute;
    width: 20px;
    height: 20px;
    top: 5px;
    left: 5px;
    background-color: red;
}

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