Relative offset float
<!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; } * .offset2 { left: -50px; top: 10px; background: gray; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="parent"> <p class="relative offset2 float">Float </p> </div> </body> </html>