Positioning a div near bottom side of another div

Tested and working on Firefox 3, Chrome 1, and IE 6, 7 and 8:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN"
                      "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">
<html><body>
<div style='background-color: yellow; width: 70%;
            height: 100px; position: relative;'>
    Outer
    <div style='background-color: green;
                position: absolute; left: 0; width: 100%; bottom: 0;'>
        <div style='background-color: magenta; width: 100px;
                    height: 30px; margin: 0 auto; text-align: center'>
            Inner
        </div>
    </div>
</div>
</body>
</html>

Live version here: http://jsfiddle.net/RichieHindle/CresX/

You need a wrapping div for the bottom one, in order to center it.

<style>
   /* making it look like your nice illustration */
   #outer { width: 300px; height: 200px; background: #f2f2cc; border: 1px solid #c0c0c0; }
   #inner { width: 50px; height: 40px; background: #ff0080; border: 1px solid #800000; }

   /* positioning the boxes correctly */
   #outer { position: relative; }
   #wrapper { position: absolute; bottom: 3px; width: 100%; }
   #inner { margin: 0 auto; }
</style>


<div id="outer">
   <div id="wrapper"><div id="inner"></div></div>
</div>

CSS3 Flexbox allows the bottom positioning very easily. Check the Flexbox support table

HTML

<div class="outer">
  <div class="inner">
  </div>
</div>

CSS

.outer {
  display: flex;
  justify-content: center; /* Center content inside */
}
.inner {
  align-self: flex-end; /* At the bottom of the parent */
}

Output:

.outer {
  background: #F2F2CD;
  display: flex;
  width: 70%;
  height: 200px;
  border: 2px solid #C2C2C3;
  justify-content: center;
}
.inner {
  background: #FF0081;
  width: 75px;
  height: 50px;
  border: 2px solid #810000;
  align-self: flex-end;
}

<div class="outer">
  <div class="inner">
  </div>
</div>

Works well on all browsers including ie6.

<style>
    #outer{
        width: 70%;
        background-color: #F2F2CC;
        border: 1px solid #C0C0C0;
        height: 500px;
        position: relative;
        text-align: center;
    }

    #inner{
        background-color: #FF0080;
        border: 1px solid black;
        width: 30px;
        height: 20px;

        /* Position at the bottom */
        position: relative;
        top: 95%;

        /* Center */
        margin: 0 auto;
        text-align: left;
    }
</style>

<div id="outer">
    <div id="inner">
    </div>
</div>

Positioning a div near bottom side of another div

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