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Sized Absolute left offset

  
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.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" title="text/css">
* .grandContainer {
  position: relative;
  height: 295px;
  width: 600px;
  border: 2px solid black;
}

* .parent {
  margin: 10px;
  padding: 10px;
  padding-top: 0;
  border: 1px solid black;
}

* .common {
  padding: 5px;
  border: 5px solid black;
}

div.common span {
  margin-left: -60px;
  border: 1px dotted black;
}

span.common span {
  margin-left: 30px;
  border: none;
}

#myAbsolute {
  position: absolute;
  text-align: left;
  top: 0;
  margin-top: 155px;
  width: 400px;
  left: 0;
  margin-left: -50px;
  right: auto;
  margin-right: auto;
  background-color: yellow;
}
</style>
</head>
<body>

<div class="grandContainer">Positioned Grandparent 
  <div class="parent">Non-positioned Parent 
    <span id="myAbsolute" class="common"><span>Sized Absolute: -50px</span></span> 
  </div>
</div> 

</body>
</html>

   
  








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