title: Placing a bootstrap badge over the lower right corner of a <li> element of an <ul> list of unknown elements?
body: <p>My conundrum is this: I'm trying to do absolute positioning relative to the regular flow of the list since I don't know how many there will be at any given time but my badge is taking the absolute position of the <code>&lt;ul&gt;</code> element instead.  </p>
  
  <p>My code:</p>
  
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  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.buttons {
    -webkit-transform: translate(50%, -50%);
    position: absolute;
    top: 148px;
    text-align: center;
    right: 50%;
    list-style: none;
    margin: auto;
    padding: 0;
  }
  .buttons li {
    display: inline;
    font-size: 36px;
    margin: 5px;
  }
  .count {
    z-index: 1;
    position: absolute;
    top: 2px;
    right: 18px;
    background-color: #d9534f;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.6/css/bootstrap.min.css" integrity="sha384-1q8mTJOASx8j1Au+a5WDVnPi2lkFfwwEAa8hDDdjZlpLegxhjVME1fgjWPGmkzs7" crossorigin="anonymous"&gt;
  &lt;ul class="buttons"&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="glyphicon glyphicon-edit"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="glyphicon glyphicon-pencil"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="glyphicon glyphicon-list"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;span class="badge count"&gt;3&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
    &lt;li&gt;&lt;span class="glyphicon glyphicon-user"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
    &lt;/li&gt;
  &lt;/ul&gt;</code></pre>
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  <p>Here's a jsfiddle link: <a href="https://jsfiddle.net/ag1vgnqt/2/" rel="nofollow">https://jsfiddle.net/ag1vgnqt/2/</a></p>