2012. 5. 15. · I believe, every front-end developer encountered this situation, at least once. Let’s say you need to absolute position something And then you try to move it in some direction, and boom it disappears You forgot the parent was set to overflow:hidden and now your element is lost in the hidden infinite vacuum.. Well, usually it ends by putting the absolute element outside. The position Property. The position property specifies the type of positioning method used for an element. There are five different position values: static. relative. fixed. absolute. sticky. Elements are then positioned using the top, bottom, left, and right properties.