title: Absolute positioning ignoring padding
body: <p>I am trying to position a div with buttons at the bottom of a parent div that has a padding.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQdi9.png" rel="noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/pQdi9.png" alt="current result"></a></p>
  
  <p>The expected result is having the button resting on top of the padding (green area).</p>
  
  <p><div class="snippet" data-lang="js" data-hide="false" data-console="true" data-babel="false">
  <div class="snippet-code">
  <pre class="snippet-code-css lang-css prettyprint-override"><code>.btn-default,
  .btn-default:hover,
  .btn-default:focus {
    color: #333;
    text-shadow: none;
    /* Prevent inheritence from `body` */
    background-color: #fff;
    border: 1px solid #fff;
  }
  a,
  a:focus,
  a:hover {
    color: #fff;
  }
  body {
    background-image: linear-gradient(rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5), rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.6)), url("../img/blank.jpg");
    background-attachment: fixed;
    background-size: cover;
    background-repeat: no-repeat;
    background-position: center top;
  }
  html,
  body {
    height: 100%;
  }
  body {
    color: #fff;
    text-align: left;
    text-shadow: 0 1px 3px rgba(0, 0, 0, .5);
  }
  #mcontainer {
    position: relative;
    float: left;
    padding: 10%;
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
  }
  #header h1 {
    margin: 0px;
  }
  #header {
    height: auto;
  }
  #footer .link-item a {
    display: table-cell;
    padding: 10px 10px;
    border: 2px solid white;
  }
  #footer {
    position: absolute;
    top: auto;
    bottom: 0%;
    height: auto;
  }
  #footer .link-item:first-child {
    border-spacing: 0px 10px;
    margin: 10px 10px 10px 0px;
  }
  #footer .link-item {
    border-spacing: 0px 10px;
    margin: 10px 10px;
  }</code></pre>
  <pre class="snippet-code-html lang-html prettyprint-override"><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;div id="mcontainer"&gt;
  
      &lt;div id="header"&gt;
        &lt;h1&gt;Text&lt;/h1&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
      &lt;div id="footer"&gt;
        &lt;span class="link-item"&gt;&lt;a href="www.google.com" target="new"&gt;Button&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="link-item"&gt;&lt;a href="www.google.com" target="new"&gt;Button&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="link-item"&gt;&lt;a href="www.google.com" target="new"&gt;Button&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="link-item"&gt;&lt;a href="www.google.com" target="new"&gt;Button&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;span class="link-item"&gt;&lt;a href="www.google.com" target="new"&gt;Button&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/span&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
  
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/html&gt;</code></pre>
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  </p>
  
  <p>Any help would be appreciated.</p>