Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-25523075-20151024164355/@comment-5062941-20151025152925

It's going under the buttons like that because it's treating the WikiaArticle div as its container and your top:-16px goes outside its actual height. This is also why increasing the z-index doesn't put it above the WikiaPageHeader, the two are different div containers.

Since you are using position:relative, you should include a container with a specified height and width (aka enclose your span with another span that has a set height and width). But this won't bring your text any closer to the edit button no matter how much you decrease the top value because the page layout is already set that way. The closest you'll get is the edge of the WikiaArticle.