[css] Stacking DIVs on top of each other?

Is it possible to stack up multiple DIVs like:

<div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
<div></div>
</div>

So that all those inner DIVs have the same X and Y position? By default they all go below each other increasing the Y position by the height of the last previous DIV.

I have a feeling some sort of float or display or other trick could bite?

EDIT: The parent DIV has position relative, so, using position absolute does not seem to work.

All the answers seem pretty old :) I'd prefer CSS grid for a better page layout (absolute divs can be overridden by other divs in the page.)

<div class="container">
  <div class="inner" style="background-color: white;"></div>
  <div class="inner" style="background-color: red;"></div>
  <div class="inner" style="background-color: green;"></div>
  <div class="inner" style="background-color: blue;"></div>
  <div class="inner" style="background-color: purple;"></div>
  <div class="inner no-display" style="background-color: black;"></div>
</div>

<style>
.container {
  width: 300px;
  height: 300px;
  margin: 0 auto;
  background-color: yellow;
  display: grid;
  place-items: center;
  grid-template-areas:
                  "inners";
}

.inner {
  grid-area: inners;
  height: 100px;
  width: 100px;
}

.no-display {
  display: none;
}
</style>

Here's a working link

style="position:absolute"

If you mean by literally putting one on the top of the other, one on the top (Same X, Y positions, but different Z position), try using the z-index CSS attribute. This should work (untested)

<div>
    <div style='z-index: 1'>1</div>
    <div style='z-index: 2'>2</div>
    <div style='z-index: 3'>3</div>
    <div style='z-index: 4'>4</div>
</div>

This should show 4 on the top of 3, 3 on the top of 2, and so on. The higher the z-index is, the higher the element is positioned on the z-axis. I hope this helped you :)

To add to Dave's answer:

div { position: relative; }
div div { position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; }

I know that this post is a little old but I had the same problem and tried to fix it several hours. Finally I found the solution:

if we have 2 boxes positioned absolue

<div style='left: 100px; top: 100px; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 200px;'></div>
<div style='left: 100px; top: 100px; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 200px;'></div>

we do expect that there will be one box on the screen. To do that we must set margin-bottom equal to -height, so doing like this:

<div style='left: 100px; top: 100px; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-bottom: -200px;'></div>
<div style='left: 100px; top: 100px; position: absolute; width: 200px; height: 200px; margin-bottom: -200px;'></div>

works fine for me.

I positioned the divs slightly offset, so that you can see it at work.
HTML

<div class="outer">
  <div class="bot">BOT</div>
  <div class="top">TOP</div>
</div>

CSS

.outer {
  position: relative;
  margin-top: 20px;
}

.top {
  position: absolute;
  margin-top: -10px;
  background-color: green;
}

.bot {
  position: absolute;
  background-color: yellow;
}

https://codepen.io/anon/pen/EXxKzP

You can now use CSS Grid to fix this.

<div class="outer">
  <div class="top"> </div>
  <div class="below"> </div>
</div>

And the css for this:

.outer {
  display: grid;
  grid-template: 1fr / 1fr;
  place-items: center;
}
.outer > * {
  grid-column: 1 / 1;
  grid-row: 1 / 1;
}
.outer .below {
  z-index: 2;
}
.outer .top {
  z-index: 1;
}

I had the same requirement which i have tried in below fiddle.

#container1 {
background-color:red;
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:0;
height:230px;
width:300px;
z-index:2;
}
#container2 {
background-color:blue;
position:absolute;
left:0;
top:0;
height:300px;
width:300px;
z-index:1;
}

#container {
position : relative;
height:350px;
width:350px;
background-color:yellow;
}

https://plnkr.co/edit/XnlneRFlvo1pB92UXCC6?p=preview