CSS position:fixed inside a positioned element

Question

I have a positioned div whose content can be too long so scrollbars appear (overflow:auto set). It functions as a dialog box in an ajax app. I want to fix a clo

Answer 1

If your close button is going to be text, this works very well for me:

#close {
  position: fixed;
  width: 70%; /* the width of the parent */
  text-align: right;
}
#close span {
  cursor: pointer;
}

Then your HTML can just be:

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