Static Block centered 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; background: red; } * .parent { margin: 10px; padding: 10px; padding-top: 0; border: 1px solid black; background: purple; } * .ex { padding: 5px; border: 5px solid black; } * .ex span { margin-left: -40px; } #ss { position: static; text-align: center; margin-top: 5px; width: auto; margin-left: 90px; margin-right: 10px; background-color: gold; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="grandContainer">Positioned Grandparent <div class="parent">Non-positioned Parent <div id="ss" class="ex"><span>Stretched Static Block: 40px</span></div> </div> </div> </body> </html>