position: relative; top: 10px; left: 10px;
<!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' xml:lang='en'> <head> <title>Relative Positioning</title> <style type='text/css'> body { font: 12px sans-serif; } div { background: yellow; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0 20px; } div#relative { position: relative; height: 200px; } p { padding: 5px; } p#offset { margin: 0; background: pink; border: 1px solid crimson; position: relative; top: 10px; left: 10px; } </style> </head> <body> <div> <p id='offset'> This element is offset from its original position. </p> </div> </body> </html>