Offset Relative
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title></title> <style type="text/css" media="Screen"> .parent { width: 600px; height: 600px; background: black; } * .float { float: left; width: 90px; height: 40px; background: yellow; } * .relative { position: relative; background: purple; } * .offset1 { left: 0px; top: -12px; background: blue; color: white; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="parent"> <p class="relative offset"> this is a test. this is a test. <span class="relative offset1"> this is a test. </span> this is a test. </p> </div> </body> </html>