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https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/trying-to-understand-block-formatting-context/130488

“In the specification, it states: “In a block formatting context, boxes are laid out one after the other, vertically” if we follow the definition of a formatting context, then this example … <div style="position: abs…” (the page’s own description)

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