Relative parent and relative child
<!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 { position: relative; padding: 20px; background: red; } * .relative2 { position: relative; z-index: 2; top: 20px; left: -30px; background: gold; } * .float { float: left; width: 100px; height: 50px; margin-right: 25px; margin-bottom: 40px; background: yellow; } </style> </head> <body> <div class="parent"> <div class="relative2 float">Relative Float 2</div> </div> </body> </html>