Z-Index Page Inaccurate

[iandunn]

http://www.w3schools.com/css/pr_pos_z-index.asp says that,

An element with greater stack order is always in front of an element with a lower stack order.

This is misleading. It should read something more like,

An element with greater stack order is always in front of an element with a lower stack order , if both are within the same stacking context.

Paolo Lombardi's article called The Stacking Context explains it well. In his example, div #4 has a higher z-index than div #1, but it appears below div #1 because div #4's parent has a lower z-index than div #1.

[ShadowMage]

I just wanna thank you for posting that article. I could never figure out how to get z-indexes to work, but that really cleared things up for me. So, thanks again!