Overlap of icons without absolute in HTML5

Question

I have the following snippet to render an icon overlapped with another. The whole div is a link. Currently I'm using position:absolute and adjusting the overlap. How can I do it without the absolute position. I also want the whole div on the right side of the screen (currently its on the left).

.btn-circle {
  position: absolute;
  top: 4px;
  left: 25px;
  width: 30px;
  height: 30px;
  line-height: 30px;
  background: red;
  border-radius: 50%;l
}

.count {
  position: absolute;
  top:8px;
  left:38px;
  font-size:16px;
  font-weight: bold;
  color:white;
}

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">   
<div class="">
      <a href="#">
        <i class="fa fa-inbox fa-2x"></i> 
        <span id="red-circle" class="btn btn-circle"></span>
        <span id="toDosCount" class="count">9</span>
      </a>
    </div>

Answer 1

You can still use absolute positioning alongside float: right if you make the containing div have position: relative

This makes the absolute positions of the inner spans relative to the div rather than the page.

A few tweaks to the top and right/left values and:

.btn-circle {
  position: absolute;
  top: -4px;
  right: -4px;
  width: 20px;
  height: 20px;
  background: red;
  border-radius: 50%;    
}

.count {
  position: absolute;
  top: -4px;
  right: -1px;
  font-size:16px;
  font-weight: bold;
  color:white;
  padding: 2px;
}

.wrapper {
  float: right;
  position: relative;
  margin-right: 100px;
}

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">   
<div class="wrapper">
      <a href="#">
        <i class="fa fa-inbox fa-2x"></i> 
        <span id="red-circle" class="btn btn-circle"></span>
        <span id="toDosCount" class="count">9</span>
      </a>
    </div>

I also nudged the whole thing to the left a little so it wasn't obscured by the snippet FULL PAGE

Answer 2

Either you need to position it correctly or reduce the font size:

Snippet

.btn-circle {
  position: absolute;
  top: -15px;
  right: 0;
  width: 15px;
  height: 15px;
  line-height: 15px;
  background: red;
  border-radius: 50%;
}

div a {position: relative;}

.count {
  position: absolute;
  top: -15px;
  right: 5px;
  font-size: 10px;
  font-weight: bold;
  color: white;
  text-align: center;
}

<link href="//netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css" rel="stylesheet">   
<div class="">
  <a href="#">
    <i class="fa fa-inbox fa-2x"></i> 
    <span id="red-circle" class="btn btn-circle"></span>
    <span id="toDosCount" class="count">9</span>
  </a>
</div>

Does this work for you?