All Divs Position Relative

[Bronson]

OK here it is.

I’m working on a site that was developed by someone else at some other point in time. I have run into a line of CSS code that makes me scratch my head.

div {
position:relative;
}

Is this a wise thing to do on a global level?

Does this help any cross browser issues or is this a bad premise to a worse conclusion?

I want to know your opinions, so please feel free to speak as candidly as you like.

Cheers
Bronson

[Chris Coyier]

I don’t see any particular problem with it. I don’t see it solving any big issues either though… What is the reasoning?

[Bronson]

It is my understanding that the original author was attempting to induce the has layout property in IE to illuminate potential cross browser issue. What i’m concerned about is stacking orders and z-index conflicts that may arise.

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