This element is positioned to the top left of the relatively positioned element.
<!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 rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'> div { background: yellow; border: 1px solid black; margin: 0 20px; } div#relative { position: relative; height: 200px; } p#bottom-right { margin: 0; background: gold; border: 1px solid crimson; height: 50px; width: 200px; position: absolute; top: 5px; left: 5px; } </style> </head> <body> <div id='relative'> <p id='bottom-right'> This element is positioned to the top left of the relatively positioned element. </p> </div> </body> </html>