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Kris Dages reports:

If you have one text element relatively positioned with an absolutely
positioned child (with the top and left properties set), the child
should be positioned relative to the top left corner of the parent.
This is so as long as the parent does not take up more than one line.
However, if the parent element takes more than one line, the child
element is now positioned relative to the left margin of the window
(disregarding even the body's margin).  The child seems to be placed
relative to the logical top of the parent regardless.

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